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Jun 26, 2020 · What concerns us here as Christians is the claims found inscribed upon the Cyrus Cylinder that assert that the god Marduk chose Cyrus, which thus enabled him to conquer Babylon and other nations. The critical passage we are concerned with reads:
- Matthew 6
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- Matthew 6
The Cyrus Cylinder, written in cuneiform, was discovered in 1879 in Nineveh, Iraq, by Hormuzd Rassam. It is now in the British Museum. The cylinder contains inscriptions in which Cyrus gives credit to the Babylonian god Marduk for choosing him and enabling him to conquer Babylon.
Oct 15, 2023 · In the text of the Cylinder, Cyrus claims that the god Marduk called him to conquer Babylon and return exiled peoples to their home. The biblical text is responding to this kind of imperial propaganda by reinterpreting the conquest in terms of God’s providence.
Feb 12, 2022 · The Cyrus Cylinder (Persian: منشور کوروش) is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great.
Mar 17, 2023 · The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the best-known surviving texts from the Achaemenid Persian Empire (c. 550–332 BCE), due almost entirely to its proposed connection to the return of the Judean exiles and the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple as recorded in the Book of Ezra.
David Guzik commentary on Ezra 1, where Cyrus, king of Persia, makes a decree which allows the exiles to return to Jerusalem.
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May 22, 2024 · If you don’t know who Cyrus was, he was the King of the Medes and Persians, and the guy who conquered Babylon at the height of its wealth and power. But that’s just the beginning of the significance of Cyrus, as Kyle Butt of the Apologetics Press explains in the following short video.
