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 ...
With the arrival of Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III upon the scene of history, a new stage in human defiance of God set in. It was a resurgence of the spirit of Babel. Men sought for a universal ...