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Lamentations

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Timeline

This timeline includes all thirteen books that would come to be known as the Ketuvim (the Writings).

Monarchic (pre-586 BC) Exilic (586-538 BC) Persian (538-332 BC) Hellenistic (332-63 BC)
800 600 400 200 BC
PsalmsPs
ProverbsProv
JobJob
Song of SolomonSong of SolSong
RuthRuth
LamentationsLam
EcclesiastesEccl
EstherEsth
DanielDan
EzraEzra
NehemiahNeh
1 Chronicles1 Chr
2 Chronicles2 Chr
United Monarchy (David & Solomon)c. 1010-930 BC Destruction of Jerusalem & First Temple587/586 BC Conquests of Alexander the Great334-323 BC

Chapters

1 2 3 4 5

Outline

  1. Jerusalem desolate 1:1-22
  2. The LORD's anger against Zion 2:1-22
  3. Affliction and hope 3:1-66
  4. The horror of the siege 4:1-22
  5. A communal plea for restoration 5:1-22

Manuscript witnesses

Major codices

Aleppo Codex — c. 930 AD
The model Masoretic codex, prepared by the Ben Asher scribes; much of its Torah is now lost.
Leningrad Codex (B19A) — 1008 AD
The oldest complete Masoretic Hebrew Bible and the base text of modern critical editions.

Other witnesses

Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran) — c. 250 BC - 68 AD
The Qumran biblical manuscripts, the oldest Hebrew and Aramaic witnesses by roughly a millennium.

Sources

  1. a Coogan, Michael D. The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2018.