Big Ideas · 9 · Daughter Zion

Reliving the destruction

Lamentations may have been composed long after the events, but by chanting it, readers relive Judah's destruction with disturbing bluntness.

Ritual keeps catastrophe present.

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Its poetry repeatedly reaches a fever pitch as voices call God to account for failing to show pity.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 138

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