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The Achaemenid Siege of Jerusalem: When Persia Restored the Temple
In this episode of The Achaemenid Empire: Persia's Golden Age of Power, Lucas and Luna explore the little-known story of Persian involvement in Jerusalem. When Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539 BCE, he issued a decree allowing the Jewish exiles to return home and rebuild their Temple. But what motivated this policy? Was it genuine religious tolerance, strategic pragmatism, or a blend of both? The conversation digs into the Cyrus Cylinder, the Book of Ezra, and the archaeological evidence from Elephantine to understand how Achaemenid imperial ideology—rooted in Ahura Mazda and the…
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