This is Dutch artist Jacob van Loo’s depiction of Judean Gov. Zerubbabel showing King Cyrus the Great of Babylon his plan to rebuild Jerusalem. Van Loo lived from 1614-70. (Courtesy Photo) The ...
The history of the Jewish people is one of glory, oppression, migration, persecution and survival. Perhaps the only explanation for this tenacity, a refusal to stay down against all odds, is that the ...
The holiday celebrates the Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery, but it continued evolving after the Neo-Babylonians conquered Jerusalem in 587 B.C. The late Middle AgesA lamb, unleavened ...
The Bible depicts Nebuchadrezzar II and his city as doomed, but to his own people, he restored Babylon to glory. A snarling lion from the sixth century B.C. once lined Babylon’s broad Processional Way ...
The exiled people of Judah turned to their stories—and found the belief that God would save them as before. Centuries later, Christians did the same. David Carr rereads the familiar materials of the ...
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