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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

It may not be as badass as Samuel L. Jackson reciting Ezekiel 25:17 in Pulp Fiction, but Jeremiah 11:11 is a chilling motif in Jordan Peele’s newest horror movie, Us, and it turns up more frequently ...

Most years, Rosh Hashana arrives and many of us feel unfairly taken by surprised, unprepared. This year, I feel we are all so prepared. We have been introspecting for 52 weeks almost to the day. We ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. A ...