Next week, The Book of Lamentations (Eicha – which in English means “How can it have happened?”) will be read on Tisha B’Av, the annual day of mourning. Having written a new commentary on this book, I ...

Like so much of the poetic material in the Old Testament, Lamentations is presented to the reader as the anguished prayers of an anonymous Israelite worshipper. The tradition most Christians are ...

Originally published in thelehrhaus.com on August 4th, 2022. The Biblical book of Lamentations, Megillat Eikha, is fraught with both theological and textual inconsistencies, making it a difficult text ...

Christopher J. H. Wright explains what one of the Bible’s most neglected books teaches about our cries of grief. We live in a world with untold amounts of pain from war, famine, and oppression. But ...

Sufjan Stevens has shared the second part of his upcoming five-part album – listen to ‘Lamentations’ below. The track is included on the second part of Stevens’ new 49-track album ‘Convocations’, ...

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