Jeremiah
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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.