Lamentations of Jeremiah

[short]This CD was produced by St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of Washington, D.C. The content of this CD is prayed and chanted in English by Deacon Dr. Daniel El-Bogdadi. This CD includes the entire book of the Lamentations of Jeremiah chanted in the well-known[/short][long]The Book of Jeremiah is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. The superscription at chapter 1:1–3 identifies it as "the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah," and places the prophet historically from the reforms of king Josiah in 627 BCE through to the assassination of the Babylonian-appointed governor of Judah in 582. Of all the prophets, Jeremiah comes through most clearly as a person, ruminating to his scribe Baruch about his role as a servant of God with little good news for his audience. Jeremiah is written in a very complex and poetic Hebrew (apart from verse 10:11, curiously written in Biblical Aramaic). It has come down in two disti