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A Torah of suffering
The five poems of Lamentations mirror the Five Books of Moses. But this revelation came not from on high in triumph but from many voices in defeat.
Some revelations come from the bottom.
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The laments were likely composed over centuries, some perhaps 200 years after 586 BCE. Generations kept returning to the catastrophe, making defeat central to their collective consciousness.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 144–145
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