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History in the Bible

Nov 23, 2025

I’m back with Gil Kidron of A Podcast of Biblical Proportions.
In its 29th chapter, the book of Jeremiah contains a letter that the prophet wrote to the exiles in Babylonia. There is another letter of Jeremiah to the exiles, a very short work. In the Orthodox tradition, this is a separate book all to itself. In...


Nov 16, 2025

There are two distinct literary traditions behind the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). Most important is the Masoretic Hebrew tradition. The other tradition is the Greek bible, known as the Septuagint. 
While the two traditions are in broad agreement, sometimes they diverge quite significantly. One of those places is in the book...