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Bible prophecy checked against the historical record

Nehemiah

  • Bible Trivia: Jerusalem

    Twelve questions on Jerusalem: who took it and when, why 597 BCE is a date and 587 is a dispute, and what the ground can and cannot tell us about the temple.

  • Bible Trivia: The Return and the Rebuilding

    Twelve questions on the deportation and what came after it — the Babylonian court, the Persian decrees, and the two men who rebuilt the temple and the wall.

  • Nehemiah

    A first-person memoir, a wall in fifty-two days, and two opponents who turn up independently in Persian-period documents.

  • Bible Trivia: The Exile and the Return

    Twelve questions on the fall of Jerusalem, the years in Babylon and the return under Persia — the period where the biblical account and the external record overlap most.