The Book of Lamentations (, Eikhah, ʾēkhā ( h )) is a poetic book of the Hebrew Bible composed by the Jewish prophet Jeremiah.

However, the strict acrostic style of four of the five poems is not found at all in the Book of Jeremiah itself and Jeremiah's name is not found anywhere in the book itself ( nor any other name, for that matter ), so authorship of Lamentations is disputed.

The Book of Lamentations is recited annually on the Tisha b ' Av, the anniversary of the destruction of both of the Jewish Temples as well as numerous other unfavorable days in Jewish history.

Most modern day biblical scholars assert that the Book of Lamentations was written by one or more authors in Judah, shortly after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC ; and was penned as a response to Babylonian Exile, the intense suffering of the people of Judah, and the complete and utter destruction of Jerusalem.

The theological views that led to its author ( s ) writing the Book of Lamentations emanated from the cultural and religious attitudes of the people of Judah in the 6th and 7th centuries BC and was probably also influenced by non-biblical sources which originated from the cultural and religious attitudes of Judah's neighbors of differing religions.

The Book of Lamentations reflects the theological and biblical view that what happened to Jerusalem was a deserved punishment ; and its destruction was instigated by their god for the communal sins of the people.

For example, from Sumerian Literature we can see the same Genre that we see in the Book of Lamentations of the Funeral Dirge and Lament reflected in the Sumerian Lament: Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur which depicts the destruction of the cities of Sumer and Ur.

Yet, as Lemke and O ’ Connor point out, The Book of Lamentations, while adapting several traditional literary, historical, and cultural Near Eastern elements, is a unique literary composition, scripted to a specific historical situation, in response to an historical catastrophe, addressing the survivors of this catastrophe in a distinctive religious context.

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The assassination of the Babylonian governor around 582 by a disaffected member of the former royal house of David provoked a Babylonian crackdown, possibly reflected in the Book of Lamentations, but the situation seems to have soon stabilised again.

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Jeremiah is traditionally credited with authoring the Book of Jeremiah, 1 Kings, 2 Kings and the Book of Lamentations, with the assistance and under the editorship of Baruch ben Neriah, his scribe and disciple.

These acrostics occur in the first four of the five songs that make up the Book of Lamentations, in the praise of the good wife in Proverbs 31, 10-31, and in Psalms 9, 10, 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119 and 145 of the Hebrew Bible.

The five relatively short books of Song of Songs, Book of Ruth, the Book of Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Book of Esther are collectively known as the Hamesh Megillot ( Five Megillot ).

The Book of Lamentations is traditionally read, followed by the kinnot, a series of liturgical lamentations.

Akkad is mentioned once in the Tanakh — Book of Genesis 10: 10: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar ( KJV ).

The Book of Ruth (; Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: ; Ashkenazi Hebrew: ; Biblical Hebrew: Megilath Ruth " the Scroll of Ruth ") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament.

The Book of Esther is a book in the Ketuvim (" writings "), the third section of the Jewish Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) and is part of the Christian Old Testament.

* The primary source relating to the origin of Purim is the Megillat Esther ( Book of Esther ), which became the last of the 24 books of the Tanakh to be canonized by the Sages of the Great Assembly.

The Book of Micah is a prophetic book in the Tanakh / Old Testament, and the sixth of the twelve minor prophets.

The Book of Haggai is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and has its place as the antepenultimate of the Minor Prophets or the " Book of the Twelve.

The Prophecy of Seventy Septets ( or literally ' seventy times seven ') appears in the angel Gabriel's reply to Daniel, beginning with verse 22 and ending with verse 27 in the ninth chapter of the Book of Daniel, a work included in both the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Bible ; as well as the Septuagint.

The Book of Genesis ( from the Latin Vulgate, in turn borrowed or transliterated from Greek γένεσις, meaning " origin ";, Bereʾšyt, " In beginning "), is the first book of the Hebrew Bible ( the Tanakh ) and the Christian Old Testament.

The Hebrews / Israelites were already referred to as " Jews " in later books of the Tanakh such as the Book of Esther, with the term Jews replacing the title " Children of Israel ".

** Book of Joel, a book in the Jewish Tanakh, and the Christian Bible

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

Malachi was the writer of the Book of Malachi, the last book of the Neviim ( prophets ) section in the Jewish Tanakh.

The Bible refers to Leviathan and Rahab, from the Hebrew Tanakh, although ' great creatures of the sea ' ( NIV ) are also mentioned in Book of Genesis 1: 21.

In the Book of Esther in the Tanakh it is referred to as Nisan.

In the early Christian experience the New Testament was added to the whole Jewish Tanakh, which after Jerome's translation tended more and more to be bound up as a single volume, and was accepted as a unified locus of authority: " the Book.

The Book of Ezekiel is unique within the tradition of the Tanakh, in that as the story unfolds, the phrase son of man is used approximately 94 times by a divine being to refer to the author.

* For the man in the Tanakh, see Minor characters in the Book of Genesis.

Samson, Shimshon (, meaning " man of the sun "); Shamshoun ( /) or Sampson () is the third-to-last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) ( Book of Judges chapters 13 to 16 ).

In the aftermath, the university cleric addressed the town-vs-gown matter with an admonishing sermon ‘ The Philistines be upon thee ’, drawn from the Book of Judges ( Chapter 16, ‘ Samson vs the Philistines ’), of the Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament.

Calf-idols are referred to later in the Tanakh, such as in the Book of Hosea, which would seem accurate as they were a fixture of near-eastern cultures.

A Lament in The Book of Lamentations or in the Book of the Psalms ( in the particular Lament / Complaint Psalms of the Tanakh, may be looked at as " a cry of need in a context of crisis when Israel lacks the resources to fend for itself.

The first reference in the Tanakh to Heshbon is found in the Book of Deuteronomy ( 2: 24 ), where it is mentioned as the capital of Amorite king, Sihon ( Sehon ).