The Lamentations of Jeremiah — Eikhah
מגילת איכה
Author: Attribué au prophète Jérémie (c. 586 av. J.-C.)
Date: c. 586–580 av. J.-C.
Preservation: Tradition manuscrite biblique, fragments de Qumran (4QLam, 3QLam, 5QLam)
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The Lamentations (Eikhah) are five elegies composed after the destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple by Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BCE. These poems describe with unbearable intensity the famine, massacre, humiliation and desolation of a city that became "like a widow." They became the paradigm of Jewish national mourning literature.
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The Lamentations (Eikhah) are five elegies composed after the destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple by Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BCE. These poems describe with unbearable intensity the famine, massacre, humiliation and desolation of a city that became "like a widow." They became the paradigm of Jewish national mourning literature.