Jeremiah
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Bible Trivia: Egypt and the Bible
Twelve questions on the state that ruled Canaan for centuries and left the earliest surviving mention of Israel — and on what its records never say.
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Bible Trivia: Babylon and the Exile
Twelve questions on the empire that took Jerusalem, the deportations, and the return — including the parts where the biblical numbers disagree with each other.
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The Lachish letters and the last days of Judah
Judaean soldiers wrote to each other on broken pottery while the Babylonian army closed in. One of them reports that he can no longer see the signals from Azekah. Jeremiah names Azekah and Lachish as the last two cities holding…
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The fall of Jerusalem, 597 BCE
A Babylonian clerk dated the capture of Jerusalem to the day. 2 Kings 24 describes the same event. They agree on almost everything that can be compared — and the numbers that disagree are inside the Bible, not between it…
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The Neo-Babylonian decades, 626–539 BCE
Eighty-seven years, from the revolt that founded the Neo-Babylonian empire to the night it ended — with the biblical texts placed beside the events, so the gap between the two bands is visible.
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Jeremiah
A prophet who lived through the destruction his book announces, in a book that survives in two substantially different ancient editions. Both facts make it unusually rewarding to check.
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The Exile in Order
Twenty-one readings covering the fall of Nineveh to the reading of the law in Jerusalem, arranged by when the events happened rather than by where the books are printed.
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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.