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The lamentations of Jeremiah are depicted in this 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. The traditional ascription of authorship to Jeremiah derives from the impetus to ascribe all biblical books to inspired biblical authors, and Jeremiah being a prophet at the time who prophesied its demise was an obvious choice. [3]
Thomas Tallis set the first lesson, and second lesson, of Tenebrae on Maundy Thursday between 1560, and 1569: "when the practice of making musical settings of the Holy Week readings from the Book of Jeremiah enjoyed a brief and distinguished flowering in England (the practice had developed on the continent during the early 15th century)".
Jeremiah was the son of Hilkiah, a priest from the land of Benjamin in the village of Anathoth. [12] The difficulties he encountered, as described in the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations, have prompted scholars to refer to him as "the weeping prophet". [13]
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 ...
The influence of Jeremiah during and after the Exile was considerable in some circles, and three additional books, the Book of Baruch, Lamentations, and the Letter of Jeremiah, were attributed to him in Second Temple Judaism (Judaism in the period between the building of the Second Temple in about 515 BCE and its destruction in 70 CE); in the ...
J. B. Lightfoot suggests that by "Jeremiah", the author intended to indicate the whole of the prophetic literature. [12] The apocryphal work known as the Rest of the Words of Baruch, also called the Ethiopic Lamentations of Jeremiah contains a quotation of one of Jeremiah's prophecies against Pashhur that matches up exactly with Matthew's ...
The Ethiopic Lamentations of Jeremiah (Geʽez: Säqoqawä Eremyas) [1] is a pseudepigraphic text, belonging to the Old Testament canons of the Beta Israel [2] and Ethiopian Orthodox Church. It is not considered canonical by any other Judeo-Christian-Islamic groups.
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