Five Megillot
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The Five Scrolls or the Five Megillot are parts of the Ketuvim, the third major section of the Tanakh. The Five Scrolls are the Song of Songs, the Book of Ruth, the Book of Lamentations, Ecclesiastes
The five megillot in multilingual micrography (Latin and Hebrew) by Aaron Wolf Herlingen, 1748
A cabinet containing the five megillot in order from right to left. (Esther is in the wooden case on the left.)
Aleppo Codex Joshua 1 1
Book of Lamentations
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The Book of Lamentations is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. In the Hebrew Bible, it appears in the Ketuvim as one of the Five Megillot alongside the Song of
Five Megillot
…parts of the Ketuvim ("Writings"), the third major section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). The Five Scrolls are the Song of Songs, the Book of Ruth, the Book of Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and the Book of Esther. These five relatively short biblical books are grouped together in Jewish tradition. An early testimony that these…
Image from "Jeremiah's Lament" of Francysk Skaryna (1517–1519), in the Taraškievica orthography of the Belarusian language
Greek translation of Lamentations 1:1–1:11 in the Codex Sinaiticus
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem (Rembrandt)
The first page of the Book of Lamentations in a codex of the Kethuvim in the Babylonian Hebrew Masoretic tradition (10th century).