Aleph Tav Alert: Lamentations

LAMENTATIONS (Eikhah) The Book of Lamentations does not explicitly identify its author but tradition is that the Prophet Jeremiah is the author and this is highly possible since Jeremiah witnessed the Babylonians destroying Jerusalem. The book was written approximately between 586 and 575 B.C., during or soon after Jerusalem’s destruction by the Babylonians who burned, plundered and destroyed the city …

Aleph Tav Alert: Ezekiel

EZEKIEL (Yechezkel) Ezekiel 1:3 identifies the Prophet Ezekiel as the author, which was likely written between 593 and 565 B.C. during the Babylonian captivity of the House of Judah. The name Ezekiel means El is my strength. He was also a contemporary of both Jeremiah and Daniel and ministered to his people who were both extremely sinful and thoroughly hopeless …

Aleph Tav Alert: Daniel

DANIEL (Daniel) Daniel 9:2 and 10:2 identifies the Prophet Daniel as the author and Y’shua also mentions Daniel as the author in Matt 24:15. Daniel’s Hebrew name means Yah is my judge and the book was written originally in Aramaic approximately between 540 and 530 B.C. In 605 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, had conquered Jerusalem and the House of …

Aleph Tav Alert: Hosea

HOSEA (Hosea) The Book of Hosea begins the Minor Prophets in the Tanakh from Hosea through Malachi. Verse one identifies the author of the book as the Prophet Hosea whose name in Hebrew means salvation. It is Hosea’s personal account of his prophetic messages he delivered to the House of Israel. Hosea, the son of Beeri, prophesied from 785 to …