Gericke, Jaco2015-02-032015-02-032012Gericke, J.W. 2012. Spectres of YHWH:  some hauntological remarks on Lamentations 3.Scriptura : International journal of Bible, Religion and Theology in Southern Africa, 110(2):166-175. [http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/script]0254-1807http://hdl.handle.net/10394/13247In this article, the author offers a brief hauntological perspective on Lamentations 3. After discussing some of the rudiments of the relevant type of Derridean philosophy of history/literature, the hauntological layers of Lamentations 3 are extracted by way of reconstructive informal philosophical commentary. This is followed by a closer look at the representation of Yhwh in Lamentations 3 as a spectre in the Derridean sense of the word. The conclusion is that, from the perspective of hauntology, Lamentations 3 is a good example of ancient spectral theology.LamentationsYhwhDerridaDerridaHauntologySpectral theologyArticle