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The course's objective is to provide a solid introduction to the history of the Achaemenid and Parthian empires in order to highlight the Iranian context surrounding the formation of the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple literature and the New Testament.
data from biblical and mostly extrabiblical sources that illustrate the continuation of Judean existence, albeit in reduced measure, through-out the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods (Lipschits 2005: 258.71). This contrast between history and archaeology on the one hand and the
The course's objective is to provide a solid introduction to the history of the Achaemenid and Parthian empires in order to highlight the Iranian context surrounding the formation of the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple literature and the New Testament.
The first Persian Empire, created and maintained by the Great Kings of the Achaemenid dynasty, was a global empire of vast proportions. Before the conquests of Alexander of Macedon, the Achaemenid empire was the largest empire the world had ever seen, stretching from Libya to Pakistan.
28 Φεβ 2013 · A failure epitomized at the very end of Herodotus' work (9.122), where Cyrus, the wise ‘father’ of the empire, is made to utter a prophetic warning about the enfeebling dangers of successful imperial expansion particularly when connected with the system of ‘oriental despotism’.
The Achaemenid Empire in the Fourth Century b.c.e.: A Period of Decline?. In O. Lipschits, G. Knoppers & R. Albertz (Ed.), Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century B.C.E. (pp. 11-30).
10 Νοε 2020 · This article provides an outline of the Achaemenid empire’s political history followed by an overview of the diverse sources for understanding some of its institutions.
