Jesus’ Birth and Flight to Egypt
As the time drew near for Jesus to be born, a mandatory Roman census made it necessary for Joseph to return to his ancestral home… Read More »Jesus’ Birth and Flight to Egypt
As the time drew near for Jesus to be born, a mandatory Roman census made it necessary for Joseph to return to his ancestral home… Read More »Jesus’ Birth and Flight to Egypt
The events in the book of Matthew take place almost entirely within the vicinity of Palestine, an area extending roughly from Caesarea Philippi in the… Read More »The Setting of Matthew
c. 460 b.c. Malachi likely prophesied several decades after the first exiles of Judah, now under Persian rule, had returned from Babylon to the minor province… Read More »The Setting of Malachi
c. 520 b.c. Zechariah prophesied to the people of Jerusalem after they returned from Babylon in 538 b.c. and before they rebuilt the temple in 515. The city… Read More »Jerusalem at the Time of Zechariah
c. 520 b.c. By Zechariah’s time the borders of the land of Israel and Judah, later called Palestine, had been completely redrawn from the days before… Read More »Palestine at the Time of Zechariah
c. 520 b.c. Zechariah prophesied to the people of Judah soon after they had returned from exile in Babylon. Several years earlier, in 539 b.c., Cyrus the… Read More »The Near East at the Time of Zechariah
c. 520 b.c. Haggai prophesied to the people of Jerusalem after they had returned from Babylon in 538 b.c. and before they had rebuilt the temple in 515.… Read More »Jerusalem at the Time of Haggai
c. 620 b.c. Zephaniah prophesied against Judah’s longtime enemies in Philistia, to the west of Judah along the coast.
c. 620 b.c. Zephaniah prophesied during the reign of Josiah, when Egypt, Judah, and Babylonia (with the help of the Medes) were regaining their autonomy and… Read More »The Near East at the Time of Zephaniah
c. 660–614 b.c. Nahum likely prophesied sometime between the zenith of Assyria’s power around 664 b.c. and the fall of Nineveh in 612. During this time the Assyrian… Read More »The Near East at the Time of Nahum
c. 740 b.c. Micah foretold the destruction that awaited Jerusalem and the towns that guarded the approach to the city. Though these towns lay to the… Read More »Micah Prophesies Destruction
c. 740 b.c. Micah prophesied to Israel and Judah during the decades just before the fall of Samaria through the time of King Hezekiah of Judah.… Read More »The Near East at the Time of Micah