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  2. Book of Lamentations - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew: אֵיכָה, ʾĒḵā, from its incipit meaning "how") is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. [1] In the Hebrew Bible , it appears in the Ketuvim ("Writings") as one of the Five Megillot ("Five Scrolls") alongside the Song of Songs , Book of Ruth , Ecclesiastes , and ...

  3. Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet - Wikipedia

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    Matthew Hunter, a viola soloist at the Berlin Philharmonic, set the Tallis Lamentations to be played by an ensemble of Stradivari violins, violas and violoncellos. The arrangement is for two antiphonally set string quintets. The group plays this piece only a couple of times every two years, when they can get the instruments together.

  4. Letter of Jeremiah - Wikipedia

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    Cyril of Jerusalem states in his list of canonical books "of Jeremiah one, including Baruch and Lamentations and the Epistle" [23] Tertullian quotes the letter authoritatively in the eighth chapter of Scorpiace. [24] The Synod of Laodicea (4th century) wrote that Jeremiah, and Baruch, the Lamentations, and the Epistle are canonical in only one ...

  5. Dating the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Written by Paul in Macedonia after having left Ephesus. [104] 𝔓 46 (late 2nd century or 3rd century CE) Galatians: c. 48 or 55 CE. [3] One of the indisputably genuine Pauline letters. The dating of this letter depends on whether it was written to the northern or southern portion of Galatia (with the former representing the later date). [105]

  6. Prophetic books - Wikipedia

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    In terms of the Tanakh, it includes the Latter Prophets from the Nevi'im, with the addition of Lamentations (which in the Tanakh is one of the Five Megillot) and Daniel, both of which are included among the books of the Hebrew Ketuvim. [2] The prophetic books are named as such because prophets are traditionally attributed as authors. [3]

  7. Lament for Ur - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Lamentations of the Old Testament, which bewails the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon in the sixth century B.C., is similar in style and theme to these earlier Mesopotamian laments. Similar laments can be found in the Book of Jeremiah, the Book of Ezekiel and the Book of Psalms, Psalm 137 (Psalms 137:1–9). [1]

  8. Lament - Wikipedia

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    A lament in the Book of Lamentations or in the Psalms, in particular in the Lament/Complaint Psalms of the Tanakh, may be looked at as "a cry of need in a context of crisis when Israel lacks the resources to fend for itself". [8] Another way of looking at it is all the more basic: laments simply being "appeals for divine help in distress". [9]

  9. Targum Lamentations - Wikipedia

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    TgLam probably originated in the early centuries of the Common Era as a result of Lamentations' use in the liturgical worship of Tisha b’Av, the day commemorating the destruction of Jerusalem. Reference to the use of a targum of Lamentations during Tisha b'Av services appears in the seventh-century text Soferim (42b). The extant versions of ...