Multiple Poets in Lamentations

Cornelius B. Houk

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Syllable-word pattern analysis, using the chi-square test, determines that no poem within Lamentations is a unity. Because frequencies of words with 1, 2, 3, and 4-5 syllables seem to be evidence of unconscious rhythms in Biblical Hebrew, the changes in syllable-word patterns suggest different poets at work. Further, the analysis offered in this study supports the identi-fication of voice and point of view changes in Lamentations 1-3 with different poets. It concludes that Lamentations is to be divided into the following differing sections: 1.1-11, 12-22; 2.1-10, 11-16, 17-19, 20-22; 3.1-24, 25-39, 40-47, 48-66; 4.1-10; 5.1-14, 15-22.

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