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- proper noun biblical A book of the
Old Testament ofBible , and of theTanakh .
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- noun an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah
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The voice of these Lamentations is a sixty-something, club-footed scientist named Julius Marantz, an obsessive researcher who suffers from both forbidden knowledge and and insistent conscience.
The Lamentations of Julius Marantz by Marc Estrin: Book summary 2010
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Estrin's novel, titled The Lamentations of Julius Marantz (Unbridled Books, 2007), twists the rapture into a comic conspiracy of the right wing US government and the Sierra Club (among others) designed to rid the government of its leftist and Islamic enemies, end the leak in the ozone, and consolidate the government's right wing political base.
Marc Estrin Takes on the Rapture in The Lamentations of Julius Marantz 2007
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The book familiarly known as the Lamentations consists of four elegies [1] (i., ii., iii., iv.) and a prayer (v.).
Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen
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To this conduce the elegiac tone of the Lamentations, which is only occasionally interrupted by intermediate tones of hope; the complaints against false prophets and against the striving after the favour of foreign nations; the verbal agreements with the Book of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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"Lamentations" (2007) is estimated at £6,000-£8,000.
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On the way to lunch we checked the surf again, noted that the sea birds are on their way north from the Bolsa Chica refuge, and sang as much of the triduum "Lamentations" as we could remember.
04/01/2003 - 05/01/2003 John 2003
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CHRISTMAS-KEEPING IN THE COUNTRY was revived in accordance with the commands of Queen Elizabeth, who listened sympathetically to the "Lamentations" of her lowlier subjects.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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Minna Harkavy (1895 – 1987), born in Estonia, also sculpted An American Miner’s Family in 1931, and reacted to the Holocaust in her 1939 statue of a sad mother and child, titled Lamentations, and in her later The Last Prayer.
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"Lamentations", settings of the liturgical hymns, a collection of motets, the well-know "Stabat Mater" for double chorus, litanies in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the offertories for the ecclesiastical year.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Among his compositions are numerous masses for four, five, and six voices, settings of the "Lamentations" for four and six voices, a large number of motets for from three to six voices, and settings of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913
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