The book of Ezekiel: Patterned after a Mesopotamian city lament?

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" The book of Ezekiel: Patterned after a Mesopotamian city lament? "
Donna Lee Petter

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	53803
Doc. No	:	TL23757
Call number	:	‭NR58985‬
Main Entry	:	Donna Lee Petter
Title & Author	:	The book of Ezekiel: Patterned after a Mesopotamian city lament?\ Donna Lee Petter
College	:	University of Toronto (Canada)
Date	:	2009
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2009
Page No	:	231
Abstract	:	This dissertation is a comparison of the book of Ezekiel with the well-known city lament genre of ancient Mesopotamia. Nine shared features are analyzed and explained. These features derive from the work of Dobbs-Allsopp 1 and his comparison of biblical Lamentations with city laments of Mesopotamia. This material provides a fruitful point of comparison; one that is more than coincidental given Ezekiel’s geographical location in Nippur (the provenience of one of the five historical city laments). Compelling comparative evidence reveals that the lament genre is reflected in the book of Ezekiel and was used as a matrix for its compilation. Ezekiel’s usage of the city lament genre is, perhaps, the key to understanding the organizational structure of much of the book along with its various themes. 1F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Weep, O Daughter of Zion: A Study of the City-Lament Genre in the Hebrew Bible (Rome: Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1993).
Subject	:	Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; City lament; Ezekiel; Mesopotamia; Biblical studies; Near Eastern Studies; Comparative studies; Cities; Ancient civilizations; 0321:Biblical studies; 0559:Near Eastern Studies
Added Entry	:	University of Toronto (Canada)