Ep. 32: The Messiah, Pt. 1

Cyrus the Great arrives, Nabonidus falls, and several people eat human meat as we sort through Herodotus to tell the story of the rise of Persia in the mid-6th century BCE. Support the show by joining the Patreon: https://patreon.com/biblelorepodcast Helpful map: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/265/empire-of-cyrus-the-great/ Check out the episode of Super Structure I was featured in: https://www.patreon.com/SuperStructure/posts/late-great-earth-159135809 Bibliography: https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/cyaxares-gk/ https://www.livius.org/sources/content/nabonidus-cylinder-from-sippar/ Paul-Alain Beaulieu - 'Reign of Nabonidus'; Matt Waters - 'King of the World'; Herodotus, Sélincourt (trnsl.) - 'The Histories'; C.J. Gadd - 'The Fall of Nineveh: The Newly Discovered Babylonian Chronicle'; M. David Litwa - 'How the Gospels Became History';