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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: seanmbrook{at}aol.com [mailto:seanmbrook{at}aol.com]
>
> > >
>  But to be serious, I had in mind the Assyrian
>  fondness for UNNECESSARY brutality.  A
>  cruelty which makes very understandable why
>  the Book of Nahum rejoiced over the fall of
>  Nineveh to the Babylonians and Medes in 612
>  BC.

They used cruelty like most dictators, as a weapon to cow their opposition.
> >
> > VH> Yep -- it was Cyrus who allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem.
> > >
>  Correct.  And recall the extravagant praise of
>  Cyrus in Deutero-Isaiah (e.g., Isaiah 41.2-5).
>  And I note there was no history of the Jews
>  rebelling against the Persians.

On the other hand, it was the Arabs who allowed the Jews to return to
Jerusalem in 632, and again about 1260 -- and what thanks did THEY get?
> > >
> > VH> The Persian concept of honor was FAR ahead of the Greeks, who were
> > routinely
> > treacherous to each other, and would turn on their own countrymen in a
> >
>
>  Correct.  Which is one reason why I have more
>  respect for the Persians, and not the Greeks.
>
>  Frankly, the Greeks were FLOPS at politics.

Yet their influence is everywhere even today.
>
>  Btw, the Parthians, and later the Sassanian
>  Persians were the only nation whom the Romans
>  considered civilized and worthy enemies.
>
And never defeated them.
>


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