Persia and the Bible [1st Paperback Ed] 9780801021084

Internationally noted historian Edwin Yamauchi paints an incisive portrait of Persia's role in Old Testament histor

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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Medes
2 Cyrus
3 Cambyses
4 Darius
5 Xerxes
6 Artaxerxes
7 Susa
8 Ecbatana
9 Pasargadae
10 Persepolis
11 Persia and the Greeks
12 Zoroastrianism
13 The Magi
14 Mithraism
Appendix
Bibliography
Index of Subjects
Index of Places
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture References
List of Maps and Illustrations
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PERSIA AND BrnLE

M. YAMAUCHI

Foreword by Donald J. Wiseman

BakerBooks A Division of Baker Book House Co. Grand Rapids, Michigan 49516

©1990,1996

Edwin M. Yamauchi

Published by Baker Books a division of Baker Book House Company P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 First hardcover edition puib1i:sht::d 1990 First paperback edition

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