Month: November 2021
Jeremiah Chapter 51
❖ Jeremiah 51:1 — “…the heart of the one rising [against] me…” There is a fascinating and strange element in this verse. In rabbinic literature, it is called an atbash (אתבש). An atbash is a type of code where the first letter of the alphabet is switched with the last, the second with the second …
Jeremiah Chapter 36
36:1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah — This would have been around 605 BCE, one year after Nebuchadnezzar’s defeat of Pharaoh Neco II at Carchemish. The power had shifted from Egypt to Babylon. In the next year (the year the scroll in this chapter was read to …