The Persian empire and the political and social history of Palestine in the Persian period
When in 539 b.c.e. Babylon fell to Cyrus, the Achemenid king of Persia (559–530 b.c.e.), Persia was raised to the position of a world empire, which encompassed the whole Near East. In contrast to the Assyrians and Babylonians, however, who had based their rule on large-scale deportations of peoples...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2004
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The Cambridge history of Judaism ; Vol. 1: Introduction, the Persian period
Year: 2004, Pages: 70-87 |