522–486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern ... period while considering the manifold interpretive problems historians face in constructing and ...

Coins offer a very different perspective from written history, which usually represents the views of the senatorial class, and which was usually composed long after the events that are described. The ...

Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the history of these ancient ... perhaps by the fifth or fourth century BCE. The extraordinary poetry of the book offers the reader hope in a God who ...