text: Origen listed Lamentations and the Letter of Jeremiah as one unit with the Book of Jeremiah proper , among `` the canonical books as the Hebrews have handed them down , '' though scholars agree that this was surely a slip .
simplified: Origen listed Lamentations and the Letter of Jeremiah as one unit with the Book of Jeremiah proper , among `` the canonical books as the Hebrews have handed them down '' .