Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ingenuity. Among these early cartographic marvels, the Babylonian Map of the World ...

Van Loo lived from 1614-70. (Courtesy Photo) The Babylonian Exile was a very painful period in Jewish history in which King Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and moved 20,000 ...

Babylonian map, stone. British Museum National Museum of Asian Art Details Related Object Details Collection Creator Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948 See more items in Ernst Herzfeld Papers Ernst Herzfeld ...

The haftarah is the prophetic reading for the week. It is usually the “ugly cousin” of the Scripture readings. In many Reform ...

The LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried way captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and ...

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Human beings would end up into Sheol, regardless of virtue. Everything began to shift during the Second Temple era, especially after the Babylonian exile. Exposure to Persian and Babylonian ...

The Maharsha explains - the Egyptian exile is likened to the wolf, the Babylonian exile to the lion, and the war of Gog and Magog to the snake. Why are Israel’s enemies in the last generation ...