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Israel / Palestine / Iran: The Prophet Jeremiah, from Rashid Al-Din, 'History of the World', c. 1306-1311

Israel / Palestine / Iran: The Prophet Jeremiah, from Rashid Al-Din, 'History of the World', c. 1306-1311

Jeremiah (Hebrew: Yirmeyahu, Arabic: Iاrmiya‎), also called the 'Weeping prophet', was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament).

Jeremiah is traditionally credited with authoring the Book of Jeremiah, 1 Kings, 2 Kings and the Book of Lamentations, with the assistance and under the editorship of Baruch ben Neriah, his scribe and disciple.

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