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Lamentations: A Commentary by Adele Berlin Old Testament Library. Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 2002. 135 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-664-21849-0.

LAMENTATIONS is RECEIVING renewed attention after some neglect. In practice, people of faith are often unfamiliar with its content, despite its longstanding use to commemorate the destruction of the Temple on the ninth day of the month of Ab in Jewish tradition and its reading during some Christian services of Holy Week. Yet perhaps the voices in Lamentations, their agony and unrelenting honesty, are finally finding resonance in present ...

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