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The poetry found in the Book of Lamentations is an eloquent expression of one man’s, and one nation’s, despair. The poet is deep in mourning as a result of the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in the sixth century B.C.E. He looks to Israel’s own sins to explain the catastrophe, and yet he recites poignant examples of Israel’s suffering in wondering aloud if God has abandoned his people...

(first in 1712, by H. von der Hardt8), discussion of the book’s authorship has tended to take the form of listing reasons why Jeremiah could not have written the book, or why he must have, as though the tradition were unanimous. Ancient tradition on this point is not in fact unanimous, however, and the problem of authorship may perhaps be best approached by first listing the separate traditions. Then, as though it were a problem of deciding between textual variants, we may ask: which tradition can
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