There were many and many historical significance in history. One major historical significance that is talked about in this book, Sources of The Making of The West, is Cyrus the king of Persia. The time line for his existence and importance was in about 557-530 B.C.E. It shows a major idea of how Cyrus was important in history and tells a story of how he came in power. Cyrus brought a very new strategy to the world and its rulers all around, which was what gave him great power as a king.…
In yesterday’s lecture, Dr. Rainbow’s adopted a geopolitical focus in order to form a conceit base on history of the three great empires. He argued that the Judeans homecoming was based on how the pass was remember, which played a vital part role in history as this event gave rise to the three major religions known today: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Moreover, Dr. Rainbow introduced the three great empires that controlled Palestine which were the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians and provided six maps which uncovered the history of how the Judeans were, the story of their exile, and they return.…
Many people believed that Bar Kochba was the messiah and that he will be the one to save the Jews from the Romans. Bar Kochba established an army and fought with Romans, however the Jews lost again and were completely expelled from Judea. Jews went from living in unity with self rule to being completely exiled from their land, forcing them to live in diasporic communities. Also, now the Jews have to move to other lands Ann try and fit in. They are going to have to find the right balance between Judaism and assimilating to the country that they will live in. The Jews have had a hard time finding places to live after this exile, for they have been kicked out of many different lands. The Jews were forced to adapt to many challenges because of the power and violence of…
Ural School, Nevyansk, The Entry into Jerusalem, Late 18th- Early 19th Century, Oil and gold leaf on panel.…
The time depicted in the medium was during the Achaemenid Empire which was the Persian Empire, established by Cyprus the great. 550-479 BCE and the Arabian Peninsula 1000 B.C. first century A.D. The Persian empire was greater than Assyrian and stretched from Egypt to Arabia across Mesopotamia and the Indus river. Persia today the nation of Iran and when Cyprus was conquering the nearing regions. During 539 B.C.E., King Cyrus chose to grow the limits of Persia. He started by vanquishing Babylon. Cyrus was different from other conquerors who ruled and dictated people but Cyrus was known for his kindness to all the people and regions he conquered especially the Jews who were treated unfairly. Cyrus did not transform the people into slaves and…
any of the Jewish people had been sent into exile between the years 597 to 582 B.C. In 539 B.C., Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylonia. About one year later he gave the Jewish people permission to return to their homeland of Judea. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Old Testament tell about the hundred-year period that followed the time of the exile. The books of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah also come from this time. Sometime between 500 and 425 B.C. the priest named Ezra encouraged the people to return to their Jewish traditions and to obey the Law of Moses. He went so far as to force Jewish men to give up their foreign wives (Ezra 9,10).…
The Lord raised up a deliverer by the name of Othneil. (Caleb’s younger brother). Othneil Helped the Israelites rise up and overtake Cushan-Rishathaim. The Lord gave his people forty years of peace. But again the Israelites “Did evil in the eyes of the Lord”. Because of their sin, the Lord gave them over to Eglon, the king of Moab. Joining up with Eglon, the Amalakites, and Ammonites came and attacked Israel. The Israelites were subject to the King of Moab for eighteen years. Israel cried out and this time God sent Ehud, a left handed Benjaminite. Ehud made a double- edged sword and placed the sheath on his right thigh under his clothes. He went before Eglon and presented him with a gift. He then told the king of a secret message that he had for him. The king wanted to be alone. So when they were, Ehud drew his sword and drove it through the king’s stomach. He locked the doors as he let and had time to escape to Seirah, where he blew a trumpet and led the Israelites to the land God had given them. After this they struck down ten thousand Moabites. The land had peace for 80…
Cyrus the Great was a brilliant and powerful Persian King that created an empire “stretching from the Indus River to the Mediterranean and from the Caucasus to the Indian Ocean” under his conquests. His governing and policies were different from any other and it helped create one of the largest empires in the world. Cyrus was truly a ‘great’ leader.…
Patriarchs, EXODUS, Covenant, Torah, Land, Monarchy, Temple, Split Kingdoms, North Destroyed, South in EXILE, Return to Land, rebuild Temple…
The response of Ezra and Nehemiah to the sins of the Hebrews is a blueprint of the actions of what a truly righteous person should do. Ezra, a scribe and priest, led the people of Israel back to Jerusalem after being in exile, learned that the nation of Israel, even the priests and the Levites had committed the sin of intermingling and intermarrying with pagans, which was in contrary to the laws given them by Moses. However, rather than leave them to their own devices and certain punishment from God, Ezra put himself in position to pray and intercede to God on behalf of those who had transgressed. He, while in the company of other elders, assumed the posture of penitent, identified with his fellow hebrews although he had not sinned and confessed before the Lord.…
This means that the proliferation of the Jewish literature was on the rise although some scholars argue that the activities during this period was obscure. Some of the biblical evidence that talk about the Persian Jewish during this period include the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. The books of Zechariah and Haggai are prophetic and cover some of the history of the Israelites in the period of the Persian rule.…
The letter of Cyrus the Great concerning the Jews was a letter Cyrus wrote stating his plans of helping the Jews return to their kingdom and promising them to rebuild their temple in Jerusalem. He kept his word and made sure that the temple was built and if anyone opposed he threatened them with death. Cyrus’s strategy of conquest was unique because it allowed people that he conquered to have a sense of freedom, even though they were being ruled over. They didn’t have to confirm to Persian culture and religion by force. Rather he allowed the different groups that he conquered like the Babylonians, Egyptians, and others to continue their own religious practices as long as they pay taxes, and gave their sons to be soldiers to the Persian army.…
According to Cyrus ideal kingdom should protect and defend the people, tolerant of all faiths, generous and forgiving. During his time he concurred a number of cities peacefully, he said “My numerous troops marched peacefully into Babylon” and the people welcomed him cheerfully. He believed a kingdom should protect the people from outside enemies, he guaranteed the people by saying “I permitted no enemy to enter”, Him and his troops wouldn’t let no harm get to them. Moreover, he added by saying I rebuild the old fallen cities on the other side of the river “Their dwelling which has fallen, I restored”. Cyrus’s ideal kingdom is based on the people’s happiness and freedom of religion. He let all the captured slaves return to their home and let…
Cyrus the great who was the Emperor of Persian at the time invaded Greece and conquered a wealth Greek settlement called Ionia in 546 B.C.E. The smaller Greek city-states had much less land and far fewer people than Persia. The Persians took their farm land and forced the Ionians to pay the Persians a tax and serve in the Persian army. The Greeks there were encouraged to rebel by the Greeks and Athens. In the 490's B.C.E, Darius who was the son of Cyrus the great, decided to invade the Athens as a punishment for the rebellion that they caused in Ionia. However, they lost at the battle of Marathon. Xerxes the son of Darius decides that he wants to now take revenge on the Greeks after their loss at Marathon and takes a force of 250,000 Persian…
Moses the prophet was a very loyal servant of God and he was the one who set the example for the Israelites while they were on his journey to the Holy Land. Since his encounter with God in the burning bush he was chosen to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. In this encounter God says to him, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a…