Lament in the Letter of James

Grant Flynn, Ph.D. (2023), is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Phoenix Seminary, Arizona.

• AcknowledgmentsList of TablesAbbreviations1 Introduction1 History of Interpretation and Approach2 Thesis3 Method4 Preliminary Issues5 Outline2 The Contours and Development of Old Testament Lament1 Introduction2 Defining “Lament”3 Contours of Old Testament Lament4 Development of Lament5 Summary3 Lament Reference and Allusion in James 5:4b1 Introduction2 James 5:1–63 Interpreting James 5:4b as a Lament Reference4 Interpreting James 5:4b as a Lament Allusion5 Summary4 Lament Allusions Elsewhere in James1 Introduction2 Jeremiah 12:3 in James 5:5b3 Psalm 140:3 in James 3:8b4 Psalm 12:3–4 in James 3:5a5 Job 13:28 in James 5:26 Summary5 Lament Exhortations in James1 Introduction2 James 1:53 James 4:94 James 5:13–185 Summary6 Lament and Joy as Wholeness in Trials1 Introduction2 James 1:2–4, 123 James 5:7–114 Making Sense of Joy and Lament in James5 Summary7 Summary and Conclusions1 Summary2 The Theological Foundation of Lament in James3 James’s Contribution to NT LamentBibliographyIndex of SubjectIndex of Modern Authors