The tablet itself is certainly genuine. On July 10 the Museum announced that a Viennese expert working his way through thousands of similar clay documents in its possession translated one dating from ...

Chapter 40 and Chapter 41 The Judeans are offered one final chance to stay in the Promised Land, but they blow it. When the Babylonians conquer and sack Jerusalem, they leave a Jewish regent, Gedaliah ...

Set during a period of instability and impending exile, the book of Jeremiah reflects on religious, political, and cultural concerns of the 7th-6th centuries BCE. With a mix of poetic oracles, prose ...

Prophets don’t really see the future. What they see all too clearly is the present. That’s why prophecy is a lonely, thankless job. Think about the fate of the biblical Jeremiah. For about 40 years, ...