258:, may be looked at as "a cry of need in a context of crisis when Israel lacks the resources to fend for itself". Another way of looking at it is all the more basic: laments simply being "appeals for divine help in distress". These laments, too, often have a set format: an address to God, description of the suffering/anguish from which one seeks relief, a petition for help and deliverance, a curse towards one's enemies, an expression of the belief of ones innocence or a confession of the lack thereof, a vow corresponding to an expected divine response, and lastly, a song of thanksgiving. Examples of a general format of this, both in the individual and communal laments, can be seen in
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Weinbaum made a case for the spontaneous lament of women chanters in the creation of the oral tradition that resulted in the
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Michalowski, trans., Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1989), 39–62; cited in Nancy Lee, Lyrics of Lament: From Tragedy to Transformation (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress,
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Marcello Sorce Keller, "Expressing, Communicating, Sharing and
Representing Grief and Sorrow with Organised Sound (Musings in Eight Short Segments)", in Stephen Wild, Di Roy, Aaron Corn and Ruth Lee Martin (eds),
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take the functional place ritual laments hold in premodern societies. This entails a shift from a focus on community and convention to individuality and authenticity.
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even when separated from the emotional pathos of their operatic contexts. An early example is
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659:Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture
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