Statement

Persian rule brought down the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the power that had devastated the Kingdom of Judah, and for the next two centuries it framed the political, social and cultural setting of the ancestors of the Jews.

References

1. p. 34

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   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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