How did the Persian Empire view kings? Did the Persian Empire conquer Greece? What did the Persian Empire build? How did the Persian Empire treat conquered peoples? What empire replaced the Assyrian Empire? Were there dynasties in the Persian Empire?
Persian kings were also renowned in the ancient Near Eastern world for their lavish banquets. Daniel 5:1 sn The king probably sat at an elevated head table. Daniel 5:1 tn Aram“the thousand.” Daniel 5:2 tn Or perhaps, “when he had tasted” (cf. NASB) in the sense of officially ...
In this so-called "Late Period," the Egyptians fell subject to various peoples. First among these were the Assyrians, whoconqueredEgypt in 671 B.C.We don't have recordsindicating if the Assyrians renamed Egypt, but it's worth noting that, sixty years later, the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II...
These common elements indicate a pattern that I call the Persian Royal Propaganda Model. This uses the languages, monument styles, and images of the subjects of the Persian Empire to depict the Persian kings as receiving authority from the local god or gods (whether Babylonian, Egyptian,...
The question of whether the “courtesy” nuance represents a development in these terms is addressed by Leshem, who makes the interesting observation that these self-effacement uses of the terms are found primarily in the books of Samuel and Kings. From this fact he concluded that the rise of...
What were images of gods in the ancient world? Statues or idols were viewed as a special connection to the god they represented. This is true of humans too. Humans are the realization of God’s presence––his temple on earth. God’s rule here on earth is not through elite kings,...
9 So the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and it was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the princes of the provinces from India to Ethiopi...
The end of the bidding is called "knocking down" because () A. the auctioneer knocks the buyer down B. the auctioneer knocks the rostrum down C. the goods are knocked down on to the table D. the aucti...
Fourteen kings would reign in Egypt from roughly 306 BC to 30 BC, all of whom were named Ptolemy. The Ptolemaic kingdom, as it was called, saw the fall of the classical Greek Empire, the rise of the Roman Republic, and its shift to the imperial superpower that it would eventually becom...
Kings built temples as symbols of hope for restoring God’s presence among his people, but Jesus declared that he was the new temple and God’s bodily presence on earth. Video: This episode is designed to accompany our video called, “Heaven & Earth.” You can view it ...