Jeremiah

Jeremiah ( – ), also called Jeremias, and occasionally in older English texts Jeremy, was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish tradition, Jeremiah authored the book that bears his name, the Books of Kings, and the Book of Lamentations, with the assistance and under the editorship of Baruch ben Neriah, his scribe and disciple.

deuterocanonical book of the Old Testament of the Bible

Hilkiah () was a Kohen (an Israelite priest) at the time of King Josiah (reigned c. 641–609 BCE).

thumb|The Jeremiah (prophet)|prophet Jeremiah lamenting the fall of [[Jerusalem, engraving by Gustave Doré, 1866]] A jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in verse, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.

1998 television film directed by Harry Winer