... vulnerable the Persian empire is by recounting recent campaigns. He then anticipates the objections of those who would invoke the King's Peace and draws together arguments of justice, expediency, and possibility before ending in a short personal statement. Isocrates Panegyricus Athens Athenian leadership...

... to supersede human authority (what we might think of today as the ‘rule of law’). This narrative posits that at least at times, the strict application of rules in particular instances of judgment amounts to little more than a sanitized form of mob violence. Hebrew Bible Daniel Persian empire judgment...

... of wordplay 12 4 12 14 12 18 13 10 Eli God acting in Israel's history Hannah Joseph moderation 1 6 5 30 7 8 Philo 15 11 16 19 Greek symposium Persian empire diaspora novellas Judith Esther Daniel Tobit Greek historians conspicuous consumption Hellenism and Judaism The role of food...

...-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Persian empires treated their remote provinces, the last part of the chapter discusses the historical development of empires, and the ‘Achaemenid revolution’, which transformed the imperial economy and the way provinces were perceived, and subsequently broke the limitations...

... conflict recruitment by Iran Iran Soft power Afghanistan Pakistan Shi’a Islam Persian Empire By focusing on Iran’s cultural, religious, social, ideological, political and economic influences in Afghanistan and Pakistan, this book has examined Iran’s soft power in both countries. It explored...

... of the sources, and a few words on method, before engaging the issues and primary source materials on Achaemenian religion, politics, and culture. The older Persian Empire is commonly referred to as “Achaemenian.” A properly “Achaemenian” dynasty was founded by Darius. Darius implicitly claimed to have...

... the status quo. The chapter also focuses on the most continuously challenging problem: the border between the Ottoman and Persian empires, which Britain attempted to stabilise in conjunction with Russia, in order to defuse the entrenched hostility between these two political and religious foes. It highlights...

.... The consolidation of the final form of prophetic books between the collapse of the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the rise of the Persian Empire suggests the co-optation of earlier prophetic voices by imperializing ideas sympathetic to the Persian Empire and the notion of a benign empire. The chapter ends...

... to provide an unexpected and revealing eastern perspective on the situation in western Asia. The chapter notes that the Aramaic zone differed from the Egyptian in some ways: One is that Aramaic had been, under the Persian empire and even afterward, an official language in which the empire's business...

... empires, going back through the Persian Empire of the Achaemenids to the Babylonian and Assyrian empires. Judaism and its Hellenisation Bickerman's interpretation of Maccabean reaction Book of Daniel Near Eastern history Jewish community Near Eastern empires Persian Empire Achaemenids Babylonian...

...Damien Agut-Labordère, The Satrapies of the Persian Empire in Egypt In: The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Edited by Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, and D. T. Potts, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso...

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...This chapter focuses on Xerxes's image as king of the Persian Empire. Everything Xerxes did, at least in public and often in private, was directed at establishing his status as representative of the divine order laid down by Ahura Mazda. His royal progress, his acts of state, his dress...

... their origins. It also discusses problems with the attribution of Zoroastrianism to the Persian kings from Cyrus the Great onwards. Finally, it looks at the role of the Magi in Persian religion, religious toleration in the Persian Empire, and Xerxes's attitude towards the daevas. Ahura Mazda Daeva inscription...

...This book concludes with an assessment of Xerxes's character and motive as king of the Persian Empire. Xerxes received a bad press from Herodotus and other Greek historians. A number of writers had constructed contrasting portraits of Xerxes based on the narrative of Herodotus. Some saw him...

...This chapter argues that the anxieties about the propriety and plausibility of the saints’ cult visible in the Latin and Greek material discussed in earlier chapters was also present east of the empire’s frontier on the Euphrates. Christians within the Persian empire appear, in other words, to have...

...This chapter deals with the first category in the work of Herodotus, i.e., space. Space must be understood in an empirical sense, not in a theoretical one. As part of his task of travel and enquiry, Herodotus visited the Persian empire. After referring to the geographic ideas and conceptions...

... with the Persian Empire in the Axial Age, binds together Afro-Eurasia, including its culture, in unprecedented fashion. European literature is eventually the heir of this Old World system. Africa ancient literature antiquity Asia Eurasia form geography Greco Roman tradition Iran ian Islam Judeo Christian...

...In comparison with previous empires, the Persian Empire (550–330 b.c.e.) was exceptional in size, coordination, and humaneness. Equally exceptional was the contemporary blossoming of Greek culture. Together the Greeks and Persians generated an economic and cultural continuity extending...

... prose history – fits well into the Persian Empire. Berquist Jon L Crusemann Frank Garraty J A and Gay P Gordon Cyrus H Samuelson N M Ezra Hesiod Israel law Minos King Mosaic law Mount Sinai Nehemiah return of Persian Empire Blenkinsopp Joseph Frye Northrop Irving Clive Olmstead A T...