Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

One example is Mordecai, the real hero of the book of Esther, has a name related to the Babylonian high god Marduk. Daniel’s three friends who were prepared to be thrown in the furnace rather than ...

The Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh soon caught the public’s attention in the nineteenth century because it was found to contain a version of the Flood story that was clearly related to the account of ...