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Lamentations barely mentions the temple
A Mesopotamian lament for the goddess Inanna obsesses over her violated temple and was likely written by its singers. Lamentations mentions the temple's destruction only once, in passing.
Biblical memory centers on a people, not an institution.
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Lamentations even blames priests, prophets, and the king. That makes it hard to identify its authors, since it criticizes the very classes that usually produced literature. Much of the Bible is like this.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 240–241
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