Next week, The Book of Lamentations (Eicha – which in English means “How can it have happened?”) will be read on Tisha B’Av, the annual day of mourning. Having written a new commentary on this book, I ...

Like so much of the poetic material in the Old Testament, Lamentations is presented to the reader as the anguished prayers of an anonymous Israelite worshipper. The tradition most Christians are ...

The first and central kinah said on Tisha B’Av is Megillat Eicha. The Gemara (Baba Batra 14a) refers to Megillat Eicha as the book of Lamentations, a Biblical book which allows us to do something ...

"She cries herself to sleep at night, tears soaking on her pillow." Is this a quote from Taylor Swift, or the biblical Book of Lamentations? And now for some silly Friday fun, here’s a game I was ...

Christopher J. H. Wright explains what one of the Bible’s most neglected books teaches about our cries of grief. We live in a world with untold amounts of pain from war, famine, and oppression. But ...

Originally published in thelehrhaus.com on August 4th, 2022. The Biblical book of Lamentations, Megillat Eikha, is fraught with both theological and textual inconsistencies, making it a difficult text ...