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Between Testaments
Undeceptions with John Dickson
The Cyrus Cylinder
In the british museum, to this day, there's a beautiful inscription about all this written on a clay cylinder. It mentions how wonderful cyrus is, of course. And part of that is the fact that he allowed certain subjugated peoples, like the jews, to return to their homelands and restore their own temples. Interestingly, many jews chose to stay in babylon. After all, by that stage, the judeans had been living in babylonia for probably three to four generations, and babylon was now their home. They knew their link back to the land of judah, but they'd lived and grown up and put down roots in bab
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