# The Book of Lamentations, Vol. 1

By **David R Slavitt**

- ISBN-13: 9780801866173
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 104
- Published: 13 Aug 2001

## About this book

Distinguished poet and translator David R. Slavitt here provides a translation of and meditation upon the Book of Lamentations, the biblical account of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 587 B.C.,on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av-Tish'a b'Av. (Six centuries later the Romans destroyed the second Temp

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