Biographical dossier

Jeremiah

Jeremiah is classified in the historical people index as RELIGIOUS FIGURE. This dossier preserves the indexed life dates and geographic anchors while explicitly marking what the source does not supply.

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Record details
Research ID
catholon:person:person:wd:Q158825
Catalogue ID
person:wd:Q158825
Wikidata ID
Q158825
Occupation class
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
Life span
650 BC–586 BC
Birth anchor
Anathoth (650 BC)
Death anchor
Egypt (586 BC)
HPI
80.46429985145745

Chronological record

The dataset places the life between 650 BC and 586 BC. These indexed dates are identity and chronology fields, not a substitute for a critical biography.

Geographic anchors

Birth: Anathoth (650 BC). Death: Egypt (586 BC).

Country keys are dataset keys and must not be mistaken for the historical boundaries that existed during the person’s lifetime.

Historical role

The source assigns the broad occupation class RELIGIOUS FIGURE. It does not by itself establish doctrine, sanctity, political legitimacy, responsibility for every event associated with the person, or the exact scope of an office.

Source and identity method

Source: PANTHEON_2_2020. Identity method: pantheon_wikidata_qid. Language-edition measure: 6.905691177718068.

Research questions

  1. Which primary sources are contemporary with this person?
  2. Which office, community or institution gives the person historical agency?
  3. How do later confessional, national or ideological narratives reshape the record?
  4. Which places on the atlas are genuine life anchors and which are later reception sites?
Phase II — source-led historical deepening

Historical horizon

Jeremiah belongs to the final decades of Judah, the Babylonian conquest and the beginning of exile. The profile follows the prophet’s conflicts, the fall of Jerusalem, the letter to the exiles and the promise of a new covenant without flattening the book’s complex transmission.

Primary-source path

  • Jeremiah
  • 2 Kings 22–25
  • 2 Chronicles 34–36
  • Lamentations
  • Baruch
  • Matthew 2:17–18

Geography and institutions

Birth anchor: Anathoth; Death anchor: Egypt The map anchors support navigation, but no point is treated as the whole extent of a ministry, kingdom, journey or later cult.

Connected study paths

Prophets and ExileBabylonWorld History map

This layer expands the catalogue entry without turning later reception into contemporary evidence. Confessional judgements, historical claims and uncertain traditions remain explicitly distinguishable.