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The order the laments were written
One compelling proposal holds that the five laments were composed in the order 2, 1, 4, 5, 3, based on which presuppose the others.
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Some may date to the fourth century BCE or later, more than two hundred years after Jerusalem fell.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 145
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