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	MyJewishLearning.com - Holidays: Eicha: The Book of Lamentations
		The book begins with the word "eicha," meaning "how"--the first word of the opening verse, "How lonely sits the city once full of people." This refers to Jerusalem after the destruction of the Temple.
		Lamentations is traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah who witnessed the destruction of the first Temple.
		The Book of Lamentations is an intricate set of dirges and descriptions of Jerusalem under siege and of the destruction of the First Temple.
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	Book of Lamentations - Bible Survey
		Date of Writing: The Book of Lamentations was likely written between 586 and 575 B.C. Purpose of Writing: As a result of Judah’s continued and unrepentant idolatry, God allowed the Babylonians to besiege, plunder, burn, and destroy the city of Jerusalem.
		In the Book of Lamentations, the Prophet Jeremiah understands that the Babylonians were God’s tool for bringing judgment on Jerusalem (Lamentations 1:12-15; 2:1-8; 4:11).
		Lamenting is appropriate in a time of distress, but it should quickly give way to contrition and repentance (Lamentations 3:40-42; 5:21-22).
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	Book of Lamentations - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew מגילת איכה;) is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh.
		However, the strict acrostic style of four of the five poems is not found at all in the Book of Jeremiah itself, and authorship of the Prophet is disputed.
		The work is probably based on the older Mesopotamian genre of the city lament, of which the Lament for Ur is among the oldest and best-known.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Lamentations (618 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - LAMENTATIONS.
		In the manuscripts and printed copies of the Old Testament the book is called, after its initial word, "Ekah"; in the Talmud and among the Rabbis, after its contents, "Ḳinot" (comp.
		The position of the book among the "Ketubim" in the Hebrew canon; for though the Alexandrian canon places it beside the Book of Jeremiah, this juxtaposition did not obtain originally, since the two books were translated by different writers.
		In later times, the book was read on the Ninth of Ab, in memory of the destruction of the Solomonic and Herodian Temples; and the custom may have originated even during the time of Zerubbabel's Temple.
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	Book of Lamentations
		The Book of Lamentations is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanach.
		The Septuagint adopted the name rendered "Lamentations" (Greek threnoi = Hebrew qinoth) now in common use, to denote the character of the book, in which the prophet mourns over the desolations brought on the city and the holy land by Chaldeans.
		Speaking of the "Wailing-place (q.v.) of the Jews" at Jerusalem, a portion of the old wall of the temple of Solomon, Schaff says: "There the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail the downfall of the holy city, kissing the stone wall and watering it with their tears.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bo/Book_of_Lamentations.html (462 words)

	Bible Survey: The Book of Lamentations
		However, the book was apparently written by an eyewitness to the destruction of the city of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BC, and the vocabulary is consistent with that setting and time.
		However, there is nothing in the book of Lamentations that can be construed as referring to the death of Josiah, and so this reference in 2 Chronicles cannot refer to the biblical book of Lamentations.
		The fifth chapter of Lamentations is not an acrostic in the strict sense, but interestingly enough, it is written in twenty-two lines, which corresponds to the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
	www.theology.edu /biblesurvey/lament.htm (452 words)

	Lamentations
		However, in Lamentations the author is in a pit but in Jeremiah the author is put in a cistern.
		Lamentations is unique because chapters 1, 2, and 4 start each verse with a Hebrew letter in the order of its alphabet.
		For this reason the author of Lamentations was unsuccessful in moving the Lord to restore the nation of Israel (Lamentations 3:8, 44).
	www.geocities.com /k9ocu/Lamentations.htm (1892 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: The Book of Lamentations (Penguin Classics)
		Although The Book of Lamentations is not a pleasant book, in an age where history seems increasingly to be repeating itself in Asia, in the Balkans, in Mexico, and elsewhere, it is a deeply instructive one.
		The book is filled with Mexican and Mayan words, which may seem off-putting at first, but their sense can usually be discovered through the context and a glossary of the most obscure words is provided at the end of the book.
		This part of the book appears to be based on an episode in the Yucatan uprising of the 1850's, but is actually a deeper analysis of the role of the directly inspired mystic as a critique of the established traditions.
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	The Book of Lamentations :: Arend Remmers
		Peculiarities, a) Hebrew Poetry, in the Book of Psalms.
		The Lamentations are the expression of a heart full of love for the earthly people of Jehovah, a people punished for their sins by loosing their kingdom, their land, their city and their sanctuary.
		The Lamentations of Jeremiah - by H A Ironside
	www.biblecentre.org /commentaries/ar_29_lamentations.htm (483 words)

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		Lamentations is a text that Christian theologians have traditionally read in terms of the "suffering man" imagery of Chapter Three, seeing it as a precursor of their own faith tradition.
		In his Surviving Lamentations, a provocative book published last year by the University of Chicago Press, Tod Linafelt argues strenuously against the failure of both Christian and Jewish commentators to fully appreciate the import of the first two chapters, with their female imagery of the devastated city.
		And he has produced a version of Lamentations that manages to be not only faithful to the structure of the original, respectful of the ashes-and-tears-drenched imagery of the Hebrew, while sacrificing none of the power of the biblical text.
	www.jbooks.com /content/07-2001/slavitt3.php (811 words)

	Introduction to Lamentations
		Arguments which affirm that Jeremiah and Lamentations do not share a similar view point are not built upon sound exegesis8 C. ConclusionOne cannot be dogmatic about the author of the book of Jeremiah, but it seems reasonable to follow tradition in this matter and identify its author as probably being Jeremiah the prophet9 V.
		It is primarily an alternate style of writing poetry and is thus a piece of artistry" (Homer Heater, Jr., "Notes on the Book of Lamentations," unpublished class notes in seminar in the preexilic Old Testament prophets [Dallas Theological Seminary, Fall 1990], 147).
		ONe of the results of incorporating the events of the city's destruction into Israel's traditional terminology of worship was to establish a semantic bridge between the historical situation of the early sixth century and the language of faith which struggles with divine judgment.
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	Lamentations
		He had watched as they destroyed all that was left, the city, the temple, the wall, and carried the people away to a land that their fathers did not know, and he wept.
		The book of Lamentations, written sometime during Judah's captivity in Babylon, is a series of five laments written as poetry.
		The book of Lamentations refers to the city of Jerusalem as the virgin daughter of Zion who has played a harlot.
	home.att.net /~hiswordonline/lamentations.htm (413 words)

	bible.org: An Introduction to the Book of Lamentations
		Jewish tradition ascribed the book of Lamentations to the prophet Jeremiah4 3.
		CANONICAL PLACEMENT OF THE BOOK A. The Hebrew Scriptures were probably originally canonized into a two-fold division: the Law and the Prophets10 B. By around the second century B.C.11 a three-fold division of the Hebrew Scriptures arose: The Law, The Prophets, and The Writings12 1.
		Continuing, Childs writes, "The effect of the canonical process on the book of Lamentations was not one of dehistoricizing the fully time-conditioned response of the survivors of the destruction of Jerusalem.
	www.bible.org /page.php?page_id=917 (2147 words)

	Book of Lamentations
		The Book of Lamentations in the Old Testament of the Bible is actually five poems that lament the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC.
		Often called "The Lamentations of Jeremiah," it is usually placed after the Book of Jeremiah, despite its uncertain authorship.
		Chapter 4 laments the ruin and desolation that had come upon the city and temple, but traces it only to the people's sins.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txs/lamentat.htm (599 words)

	The Book of Lamentations (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In The Book of Lamentations, however, Rosario Castellanos renders the twisted spirits of the crucifiers so convincingly that the boy's ritual murder -- reported to have been committed by a Mayan mob at the height of an armed peasant rebellion in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas -- seems not only believable but inevitable.
		The Book of Lamentations is set some 60 years ago, and is based on events from the rebellions of 1712 and 1868.
		As a consequence, her book is refreshingly free of the Dances with Wolves breed of romanticism that has marred so many portrayals of America's indigenous peoples.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/reviews/02-97/LAMENTATIONS.html (713 words)

	St. Gregory of Narek
		A new book of Psalms that encompasses the range of human frailty and emotions, the Book of Lamentations stresses the grace of God's compassion and mercy for those who confess their shortcomings and alienation from God.
		The Book of Lamentations is venerated in the Armenian Church as having healing powers.
		The book is often placed under the pillow of the infirm and Prayer 18 is ascribed special healing powers.
	www.st-gregory-narek.org /namesake.html (0 words)

	Daily Bible Study - By The Book - Lamentations
		Lamentations was written by the prophet Jeremiah (see Prophets).
		It follows his prophetic Book of Jeremiah in which the people of the southern kingdom of Judah (see Kings of Israel and Judah and Jews At War With Israel) refused to heed over 20 years of God's warnings.
		Lamentations is Jeremiah's eyewitness record of the aftermath of Jerusalem's destruction by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. (see Ancient Empires - Babylon).
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/lament.htm (201 words)

	On the book of Lamentations - Christis
		Lamentations is an interesting book, found after Isaiah and Jeremiah and before Ezekiel, Daniel and Hosea but not in itself a book of prophecy (although it is attributed to the prophet Jeremiah).
		The book is a lament on the fate of Jerusalem — which had recently been destroyed by the Babylonians, just as Jeremiah had warned.
		In the book of Jeremiah it was clear — Israel was to be punished for idolatry — “you have as many gods as you have towns” (Jer 12:13).
	www.christis.org.uk /archive/issue98/lamentations.html (836 words)

	Lamentations Study Bible Forum studybibleforum
		The term Lamentations is from a Greek verb meaning “to cry aloud” and accurately describes the contents of the book, which consists of five melancholy poems of mourning over the utter destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Babylonians.
		The book consists of five poems, one for each chapter, the first four being written as acrostics (each verse begins with a word whose first letter is successively one of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet—except in chap.
		The best-known verses in the book are undoubtedly 1:12a and 3:22-23.
	www.studybibleforum.com /spages/Lamentations.htm (636 words)

	Lamentations
		Lamentations, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871.
		The Book of Lamentations, verse by verse commentary, Robert Nguyen Cramer, BibleTexts.com.
		Linafelt, Tod, "The Refusal of a Conclusion in the Book of Lamentations," Journal of Biblical Literature, 2001.
	www.textweek.com /prophets/lamentat.htm (343 words)

	The Book of Lamentations (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Book of Lamentations is a collection of psalms lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 587/6 BC.
		The structure of the book is much more clear in Hebrew than it is in English or other translations.
		Lament Psalms are always poetry, but the Book of Lamentations is a special type of poetic composition.
	www.cresourcei.org /books/lamentations.html (190 words)

	Blue Letter Bible - Commentaries
		The book of Lamentations is a funeral dirge over the desolation of Jerusalem.
		It is read each year in the synagogues as the Jews commemorate the destruction of Solomon's Temple in 586 B.C. Jeremiah wrote the Lamentations as he wept bitterly over the city he had desperately tried to save.
		LAMENTATIONS 4: Horrors of the Siege of Jerusalem
	www.blueletterbible.org /Comm/chuck_smith/sg/lamentations.html (551 words)

	Lamentations (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is not strange that later generations saw in this passage a reference to the canonical Book of Lamentations and thus concluded that Jeremiah was its author.
		Norman K. Gottwald writes: "Lamentations was almost certainly written in the sixth century B.C. to commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem by the Neo-Babylonians in 587.
		The stock of lament language was, by this time, already richly developed in Israelite religion.
	www.earlyjewishwritings.com /lamentations.html (618 words)

	Powell's Books - by
		According to tradition, the Book of Lamentations was written in response to this political, social, and religious crisis.
		As Slavitt observes in his meditation: It is forbidden on Tish'a b'Av even to study the Torah, except for the Book of Job and the Book of Lamentations.
		Distinguished poet and translator Slavitt offers a translation of the Book of Lamentations in which he reproduces in English the acrostic characteristics of the Hebrew version; that is, each verse begins with a sequential letter of the English alphabet (the first 22 letters).
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0801866170-0 (441 words)

	Lamentations, Book of (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		[Septuagint] adopted the name rendered "Lamentations" (Greek: threnoi = Hebrew: qinoth) now in common use, to denote the character of the book, in which the prophet mourns over the desolations brought on the city and the holy land by Chaldeabs.
		According to tradition, he retired after the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar to a cavern outside the Damascus gate, where he wrote this book.
		Speaking of the "Wailing-place (q.v.) of the Jews" at Jerusalem, a portion of the old wall of the temple of Solomon, Schaff says: "There the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail the downfall of the holy city, kissing the stone wall and watering it with their tears.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/lamentationsbookof.html (433 words)

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