Nahman Avigad, one of Israel's leading epigraphists has published a number of analyses of a large number of bullae, inscribed clay seals. In Hebrew Bullae From the Time of Jeremiah: Remnants of a Burnt Archive, Avigad observes that "when handling impressions of the personal seals of Berekhyahu/Baruch son of Neriyahu the scribe (the Prophet Jeremiah's secretary and faithful companion), or of Yerahme'el the son of the king (of whom it is related that he was sent to arrest both jeremiah and baruch on the order of the king), one cannot refrain from associating them with the personages who played active roles in the stormy events at the royal court prior to the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE."

In The Old Testament Documents: Are They Reliable & Relevant, Walter Kaiser, provides a brief treatment of the material remains that are relevant to the writing prophets. The details in these prophetic texts show that these prophets were not operating in a vacuum but in real a real space and time milieu.  

While the role of the discipline of archaeology is not to prove this biblical text or that, the material remains and their analysis does furnish some background to the events and messages reported in the biblical texts. They also provide some insight to readers who come to the text from a very different place chronologically and culturally and give significant support to the plausibility of these texts.

Here are examples of some of the material evidence discussed. Click on one of the inscriptions below for more information.