The prophet Jeremiah and King Josaiah were born at the end of a dark era in Judah's history. These two men gave their country its finest opportunity of renewal and its last hope of surviving as the kingdom of David. The book is full of turmoil and national tragedy, the story of key people like Baruch, Gedaliah, and Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, and the drama of rediscovering the forgotten book of Mosaic law.