A Popular Dictionary of Judaism
A Biblical book, numbered among the *five *scrolls.
The Book of Lamentations is a lament for the destruction of *Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. It was traditionally thought to have been written by *Jeremiah although this is not accepted by most modern scholars. It is closely related to other examples of *wisdom literature and was almost certainly written in the first half of the 6th Century BCE.
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