To: Brumar89 who wrote (37951 ) 6/24/2013 11:08:12 PM From: 2MAR$ Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300 First you said the Persians let the Jews rebuild their temple, then you said there was no temple to rebuild. I tend to forget sometimes you're as stupid as the other moron , perhaps its the senility, where did you see me post the Jews building Persian Temples? It is pretty daunting to argue with such morons, suffice to say Moses is a myth, Exodus is a myth, great Jewish monotheist temples of 1000bc built by Solomon & David is a myth, Jerusalem wasnt even barely worth a historical mention 1000bc. (it was a primitive tiny goatown) So we find the entire old testement timeline so far screwed up to be even worse than all other pagan legends, they don't even really exhibit wisdom themselves until contact with either Babylonians or later Persians which Judaism & your later Christianity comes directly from. Thats the great lie, that there was a Moses who started all of this from direct contact with God, not a shred of truth to it, Jews learned religious sophistcation from the Persians & Babylonians. IIn 539 BCE, the Persians conquered Babylon, and, in accordance with their Zoroastrian perspective, allowed the people deported by the Babylonians to return; this is described by the Cyrus Cylinder , which also indicates that the Persians repaired the temples in these conquered lands, returning any sacred artifacts to them. According to the archaeological record, no more than 25% of the population had actually been deported; [61] according to the Book of Ezra and its parallel passages in the First Book of Esdras , when the deportees began to return, their leader— Zerubbabel —refused to allow the undeported Israelites to assist them in reconstructing the Jerusalem temple, apparently believing that only the former deportees had the right to determine the beliefs and practices which could count as the orthodoxy . [62] Although the undeported majority then tried to stop the reconstruction, Darius , the new Persian king, eventually allowed it to continue