Poems of Lament

Apocryphal Lamentations B

2nd Century BCE–1st Century CE

Apocryphal Lamentations B

1[ . . . ] Do not give our inheritance to foreigners, nor our produce to the sons of foreigners. Remember that 2[we are the removed one]s of your people and the forsaken ones of your inheritance. Remember the sons of your covenant, the desolate, 3[ . . . ] the spurred ones, the wanderers, who no one brings back, the sorely…

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The texts preserved in Apocryphal Lamentations A and B may be understood either as alternative versions of parts of the canonical book of Lamentations before it achieved its final form or as distinct texts in the ancient genre of lamentation poetry. If the former, these Dead Sea texts, like others, may reflect a text in the course of its development. If the latter, these texts may preserve a sectarian voice of lament. We have included Apocryphal Lamentations B (4Q501) here; for Apocryphal Lamentations A (4Q179), see Communal Laments.

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