Jeremiah (active late 7th-early 6th century BC) was one of the four major Jewish prophets. A priest from Anathoth, Israel, he is the reputed author of the Book of Jeremiah. The dates of Jeremiah's birth and death are not known. It is known that he...
JEREMIAH (c. 640–580 BCE), or, in Hebrew, Yirme-yah(u); biblical prophet. Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, was born in Anathoth, some 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Jerusalem. The English name Jeremiah is based on the Greek Hieremias from the Septuagint...
Jeremiah (Hebrew: יִרְמְיָהוּ, Standard Yirməyáhu, frequently misspelled as Yirmiyáhu Tiberian Yirməyāhū ; "the {{smallcaps|Lord}} will raise", Arabic: 'Ar-mia' (ارمیا) IPA: [ jir.mɛ'ja.hu ]) was one of the...
LOUIS STULMAN, Jeremiah (Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries; Nashville: Abingdon, 2005). Pp. xxii + 400. Paper $39. Many commentaries on the Book of Jeremiah have been published since Robert P. Carroll's groundbreaking volume in the Old Testament Library series in 1986. Several of them...
A. R. PETE DIAMOND, KATHLEEN M. O'CONNOR, and LOUIS STULMAN (eds.), Troubling Jeremiah (JSOTSup 260; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999). Pp. 463. 50, $85. This collection of works represents the papers presented at the national meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, in...
In July 2004, Zogby International Surveys interviewed 3,300 Arabs in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Asked to identify “the best thing that comes to mind about America,” almost all of the respondents replied: “Nothing at all.” Since then, according...
The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on whether a gay couple who wed in Massachusetts can get divorced in Rhode Island, where the law is silent on the legality of same-sex marriages.The justices said they would decide only whether a lower court...