From Medium: 5 Reasons Why You Should Read Lamentations

Lamentations has been a historically understudied book. Let’s change that. Here are five reasons why you should read it.IntroductionLamentations has not received the same attention historically as many other Old Testament books. Several reasons contribute to this, but perhaps most prominently, Lamentations has not garnered much attention due to its brevity and the challenging material it contains.Lamentations 1–2 portrays Jerusalem as a personified woman, and as expected in a siege context in the Ancient Near East, the woman is treated horrifically. Her status as royalty changes to slavery (Lam. 1:1). She is severely depressed, with no one to...