The Babylonian Exile was a very painful period in Jewish history in which King Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and moved 20,000 people 900 miles east to Babylon, ...

The Cyrus Cylinder is often considered the first charter of human rights, inscribed with the words of King Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.

The people of Israel remained fragmented until the emergence of Moses. He began to reunite Israel under his leadership until ...

Reflecting on Ezra 9:8, this article explores the concept of "a little space of grace"—God’s gift of opportunity and mercy ...

Clay bricks from the building projects of ancient kings recorded a historical “map” of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, a new study has found. About 3,000 years ago, for reasons that ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...

Peter John Beyfus is an historian, published author, poet, and a person who prides himself on “thinking outside the box”. I have written many essays on Jewish themes, published in various ...

The only one out of 150 psalms to be set in a particular time and place, it relates to the Babylonian Exile—the period between 587 and 586 B.C. in Israel’s history, when Jews were taken ...