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Persia and the Bible

The Ancients

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The History of Cyrus the Great

Babylonia becomes a touchstone for Jewish identity and rightly so because brilliant things emerged from the Babylonian exile. Persia and Cyrus are mentioned in the New Testament too is they're just a real focus no they're not but there's a very alive and active awareness that this great Persian king gave the Jewish people an identity.

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