The Cyrus Cylinder
The Persian repatriation policy behind the return from exile is documented in Cyrus's own words — the general policy, independently attested; the specific decree for Judah, only in the Bible.
Подтверждено раскопкамиНадписьc. 539 BC
A clay barrel inscribed after Cyrus took Babylon, announcing his policy: restore the sanctuaries, and send displaced peoples home with their gods. Judah is not named on it — but the policy it states is precisely the one Ezra credits Cyrus with applying to the exiles from Jerusalem.
I returned the images of the gods to their sanctuaries… and I gathered all their inhabitants and returned to them their dwellings.
- Найдено
- Babylon, Iraq, 1879 — Hormuzd Rassam
- Хранится
- British Museum, London (BM 90920)
- Язык
- Akkadian
- Как это дошло до нас
- Раскопано или до сих пор стоит там, где было построено.
Что она показывает
The cylinder does not mention Jews, Judah or Jerusalem. It corroborates the policy and the king, not the specific decree — and saying otherwise is a common overreach.
Как это используют историки
A major primary source for Achaemenid imperial policy, studied entirely apart from biblical questions.
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