Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Cultural Contexts

Nancy C. Lee, Ph.D. (2000) in Hebrew Bible, Union Seminary/PSCE, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois. She is the author of The Singers of Lamentations: Cities Under Siege, from Ur to Jerusalem to Sarajevo, editor of Between Despair and Lamentation, and contributed on Lamentations for the NRSV Discipleship Study Bible.

Carleen Mandolfo, Ph.D. (2000) in Hebrew Bible, Emory University, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She is the author of God in the Dock: Dialogic Tension in Psalms of Lament, Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations, and co-author of From Earth's Creation to John's Revelation: The Interfaces Biblical Storyline Companion .