Cyrus is admired in Jewish tradition because he allowed the Jews who were exiled to Babylon after the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE to return to Jerusalem. An important source discussed ...

Was the Book of Daniel really written in the sixth century BC or was it a much later forgery from the Hellenistic Era?

In the Book of Ezra, Cyrus allowed the Jews ... Xenophon claims that the great king exhorted his subjects, saying: “Next to the gods, however, show respect also to all the race of men as ...

While Herod the Great built the Western Wall ... And it was enough to earn Cyrus the designation of “anointed one” in the book of Isaiah (45.1; see also 44.28) — the only gentile so dubbed ...