by hadassah | Nov 16, 2015 | Jews in the Persian Period
Cyrus the Messiah, Lisbeth S. Fried, Bible Review (19:5) 2003. Why Isaiah calls a non-Jewish king of Persia Israel’s anointed one The Persian emperor Cyrus is honored as the only foreigner in the Bible to be identified as the “messiah” or “anointed one” of...
by hadassah | Nov 12, 2015 | Jews in the Persian Period
Ezra 1:5-11: The Vessels of the Temple The biblical account sees the support for the return as coming both from the Jewish community in Babylonia as well as from the Persian ruler who returned the sacred vessels taken by the Babylonians when they sacked the...
by hadassah | Nov 12, 2015 | Jews in the Persian Period
The Declaration of Cyrus – The Rebuilding of Ancient Shrines A weakling has been installed as the king of his country… sacred cities inappropriate rituals… daily he did blabber [incorrect prayers]. He interrupted in a fiendish way the regular offerings…...
by hadassah | Jan 22, 2009 | Jews in the Persian Period, Persian Period
Did the Ark Stop at Elephantine? Bezalel Porten, Biblical Archaeology Review (21:3), May/Jun 1995. Was the Ark of the Covenant taken from Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem during the reign of King Manasseh in the seventh century B.C.E. to an island called...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Jews in the Persian Period
Ezra 6: The Order to Rebuild Biblical sources assert that after sacrifices were quickly restarted after the Return, the building of the Temple was delayed. Eventually, permission was obtained from the Persian officials, as well as financial support, for the...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Jews in the Persian Period
Ezra 9-10 Expulsion of Foreign Wives Ezra was soon confronted with the problem of intermarriage of some Judeans with women from the neighboring nations. Reasoning that the Torah forbade such unions, Ezra forced these men to divorce their wives. 9-1 When this...
