The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

Habakkuk’s antipathy to the Chaldeans pervades his prophecies. References to the cruelty of the invaders also appear in Kings an ...

That will not prove false! If it should tarry – wait for it! It shall surely arrive; it will not be delayed in coming. For he is ...

The same change would apply to Zeph 3 : 3 ( Roberts 1991 : 92 ). Finally, in Hab 1 : 11 the translation assumes that the persist ...

Vanderhooft, D. 2003 “Babylonian Strategies of Imperial Control in the West: Royal Practice and Rhetoric,” in O. Lipschitz and J ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE THE PERSIAN EMPIRE  Amélie Kuhrt F rom 539 to 331 , Babylonia was a province of the Achaemenid Persian em ...

and Media. They, in turn, contributed to the emerging formulation of the Persian imagery of power. This can be seen particularly ...

the Egyptian Kharga oasis. One problem is that several sites, known to have been very important in the Persian period, are cover ...

hands. In the 540 s, Croesus, the Lydian king, came into conflict with his new Persian neighbour, and Cyrus’ subsequent victory ...

Memphis, in Lydia – Sardis, in Media – Ecbatana, in Mesopotamia – Babylon. But modifications to this older system were also intr ...

Arab groups enjoyed another kind of relationship with the central authority. In return for ensuring safe routes through the dese ...

by Jews. Neighbouring Samaria was administered by the local family of Sanballat. The Phoenician cities continued under the contr ...

secondary wives of the kings themselves could be non-Persian, and in certain circumstances their sons might succeed to the thron ...

by the king, royal retinue and army contingents, but also for the speedy communication between king and satrapal authorities and ...

a member of the Achaemenid family, ideally directly descended from his predecessor. He usually chose his successor from among hi ...

dress, elaborate ornaments, a horse ‘that had been ridden by the king’ (Esther 6. 8 ), land revenues, high position and, particu ...

(almost certainly of Aramaic) working at a high level in the bureaucracy of Fars. It is also worth remembering that all Old Pers ...

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There are plenty of reliable translations of Herodotus; good discussions of his approach, intellectual context and reliability, ...

C. Waerzeggers, 2003 / 4 , ‘The Babylonian revolts against Xerxes and the “end of archives” ’, Archiv für Orientforschung 50 : 1 ...

Abi-eshuh 131 , 217 Abi-sare 24 Abu Qubur 66 Abu Salabikh 146 , 152 , 256 , 257 , 433 , 448 Achaemenid period 236 , 343 , 476 , ...