The writing prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets are understood as belonging to this category. According to Jewish tradition, the oldest biblical sources of the history of Israel are entirely due to the spirit of prophecy....
The name "Former Prophets" derives from Jewish tradition and serves in the Hebrew Bible as the designation for the Books of Joshua, Judges, 1–2 Samuel, and 1–2 Kings. The designation is significant. It refers to the prophetic narratives in the Books of Kings and to others which fit the...
The greatest empire in the history of the world fell in September 4, 476 A.D. The historian Salvian wrote in the fifth century: “O Roman people be ashamed… Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us.” The proud and haughty Roman empire fell into...
GOD Almighty commanded the Jews to NEVER mix His Commandments with any other text (Jeremiah 31:31-34, Isaiah 42:10-13, Deuteronomy 18:18: The Jews' Covenant will expire and will be replaced with the Gentiles' one from Arabia). Having any Bible upheld as the Holy and Pure Word of GOD...
Here, amazingly in view of the presentationof the Book of Jeremiah where the prophet appears asa prominent a figure during this period, Jeremiahis not so much as mentioned. This state of affairstantalizes in that while the fact itself seems sodemand of explanation, it at the same time ...
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Third, due to differences between the MT and LXX, Schniedewind argues that the textual history of Jeremiah reflects two distinct scribal communities, one with Jeremiah as a peripheral priest and the other with Jeremiah as a prophet. Finally, he explores the idea that Ezekiel was part of a ...
Despite this, and despite the repeated warnings of the prophet Jeremiah, the kings of Judah did not stop flirting with the pharaoh and calling on his army for help (see Jer 37:1-10). A bad choice, since Egypt had lost its rank as a great power, and the kings only draw down upon ...
Among other things, this allowed Christians to see Biblical history in relation to pagan history, which must have had a mixed effect: on the one hand, it grounded the persons and events of the Bible in a known world — Jeremiah and Thales were contemporaries — but it also suggested that ...
The Prophet JeremiahMichelangelo’s fresco, The Prophet Jeremiah, 1511 (Photo credit: Wikiwand)Giotto, a PrecursorWiki Wand shows us a painting by Giotto (c. 1267–1337), a precursor of Renaissance humanism. Colours are paler where light touches the figures. Therefore, Giotto’s approach to ...