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Cannibalism is a sensitive subject that many commentaries on the Book ofLamentations pay little attention to. This article develops the possibility that theBook of Lamentations confronts YHWH with the affliction that He has caused thedestruction of Jerusalem and that maternal cannibalism is the horrendous extremeof this divinely inflicted suffering. This suggestion is discussed against thebackground of a central motif in later Greco-Roman literature that the tyrant is theinverted Other. Cannibalism may then be interpreted as a motif in the polemicsagainst tyranny by the author of Lamentations to depict YHWH as author of themisery experienced with the destruction of Jerusalem and thereafter.

THE FUNCTION OF (MATERNAL) CANNIBALISM IN THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS (2:20 & 4:10)