Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

Babylon has resonated in Judeo-Christian culture for centuries. The books of the Old Testament recount the exile of the Jews to Babylon following the sack of Jerusalem, by whose waters they “sat ...

Haggai, Zachariah and Malachi were called the “post-exilic” prophets, as their words came after the Jewish captivity in Babylon. They urged the completion of the temple. Visions of the coming ...

This psalm serves as a stark reminder of the deep-seated impact of the Babylonian exile on the Jewish psyche and religious expression. Perhaps a hundred years later, or less, the Babylonians were ...