It was 597 B.C. when Ezekiel and thousands of other citizens of Judah were taken over by the Babylonians and forced into exile. Ezekiel had been living as a captive in Babylon for five years with his ...
Four significant prophetic passages are being fulfilled in Israel before our very eyes. They are Ezekiel 36:24-28, Jeremiah 16:15-16, Zechariah 12:3-4, and Jeremiah 49:34-39. These four passages give ...
This week ends the professor’s Bible study on the prophets in the Hebrew Scriptures, the shaggy “conscience of Israel.” Thus far we have reflected on Amos, Hosea and Jeremiah. This week we consider ...
It speaks not only to the drama unfolding in this week’s Torah portion but also to the deepest fault lines in Jewish history – and to the possibility of their healing. In the Torah, Joseph finally ...