The earth mourns : prophetic metaphor and oral aesthetic - Hayes, Katherine Murphey (Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2002)
Summary of scholarship on the nine passages as a group -- Amos 1:2 -- Hosea 4:1-3 -- Jeremiah 4:23-28 -- Jeremiah 12:1-4 -- Jeremiah 12:7-13 -- Jeremiah 23:9-12 -- Isaiah 24:1-20 -- Isaiah 33:7-9 -- Joel 1:5-20 -- The aesthetics of oral traditional poetry and the biblical text. The composition of traditional oral and oral-derived poetry. The reception of traditional oral and oral-derived poetry. Implications for the study of biblical poetic texts -- Appendix: Recurrent roots and words in the nine passages
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Bible. -- Language, style; Nature in the Bible; Metaphor in the Bible