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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Rama
Matthew quotes Jeremiah's Rachel weeping for her children in Rama, and applies it to Herod killing the baby boys of Bethlehem. Rama is the Greek form of Ramah.
Matthew quotes Jeremiah's Rachel weeping for her children in Rama, and applies it to Herod killing the baby boys of Bethlehem. Rama is the Greek form of Ramah.
Rama is the Greek form of Ramah, used in Matthew's Gospel to quote Jeremiah's image of Rachel weeping for her children, a passage Matthew applies to Herod's slaughter of the infant boys of Bethlehem (Matt. 2:18). The Ramah in view is the town just north of Jerusalem, near Gibeah, where, according to Jeremiah, captives from the fallen kingdom of Judah were gathered before being marched off to Babylon, making it a fitting image of a mother's grief.
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- Matthew 2:18
