In the 10th century they controlled most of eastern Iran and present-day Afghanistan. The Samanids belonged to the local Iranianaristocracyand even claimed a pedigree going back to the Sasanian kings. Though they remained faithful to Islam, they did much to promote the literary use of Persian ...
The Jeroboam narrative occurs in two main forms, one in the Hebrew Bible, 1 Kings 11-14, and the other in the Greek Bible, 3 Kingdoms 12: 24a-z. This difference gave rise to a scholarly debate over many decades. In a recent article in the JSJ, Marvin A. Sweeney has proposed a ...
kings and heroes who later appear as semihistorical figures in Persianepicpoetryare also here mentioned; the myths to which these texts refer were well known to the original audience but are now lost. The only other Old Iranian language found inextanttexts is the Old Persian used by theAchae...
The Shahnameh (Book of Kings) is the national epic of Iran composed by the poet Ferdowsi between 980 and 1010 AD. It tells the story of ancient Persia, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab-Islamic invasion in the se
Darius is a historic name via Emperor Darius the Great, a key figure in ancient Persian history, and several other Persian kings. His name today has an appealingly artistic image, which might well be found on a concert program or gallery announcement. Darius Continued Caspar Origin: Persian,...
and ·take away other kings’ power[orremove kings’ armor;L open the loins of kings]. I will open doors for you so city gates will not ·stop you[be shut]. 2I will go before you and ·make the mountains flat[level mountains;40:4]. ...
KIIÑ in Persia eo Xerxes I, im Bible eo kar naetan Ahasuerus, ear etale ri tarinae ro an mokta wõt jen ien tarinae eo ilo yiõ eo 480 B.C.E. jw2019 Artaxerxes is a name or title applied to two Persian kings. Artaxerxes ej juõn ãt ak title ñan ruo king in...
This inscr., as transcribed by Sir Henry C. Rawlinson (1836 and subsequent years), provided the material through which Akkad. was deciphered. The inscr. details the fortunes of the royal line of the Achaemenids from c. 700-500 b.c. The annals give not only the line of kings but ...
Ferdowsi was born in Khorasan in a village near Tous, in 935 CE His great epic TheShahnameh(The Epic of Kings), to which he devoted most of his adult life, was originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan, who were the chief instigators of the revival of Persian cultural tradi...
the Persians allowed Judean exiles to return home and rebuild the Jerusalem temple, so the Hebrew Bible uniquely depicts their empire as expressing YHWH’s benevolence. These positive depictions of Persian kings provide a better understanding both of the development of the book of Nehemiah a...