The Prophet Ezekiel
Ezekiel was the son of the priest Buzi, and he himself was also a priest. In the year 597 B.C., while still young, he was among the first group of deportees taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. Five years later, in 593 B.C., upon turning thirty — the age at which he...
The Dead Sea: A condemned lake?
Western shore of the Dead Sea, between Qumran and Ein Gedi. Photo: Eyal Asaf. The Dead Sea is the sea of all superlatives: at 420 meters below the Mediterranean, it is the lowest point on Earth; with salinity levels almost ten times higher than those of the ocean, it...
The prophet Jeremiah
The prophet Jeremiah was born in Anathoth, a small village in the kingdom of Judah, north of Jerusalem, within the territory populated by the tribe of Benjamin. He came from a priestly lineage, and his prophetic activity lasted more than forty years. He carried out...
The Grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of...