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H. H. Rowley's 1935 study of the question (Darius the Mede and the Four World Empires in the Book of Daniel, 1935) has shown that Darius the Mede cannot be identified with any king, [21] and he is generally seen today as a literary fiction combining the historical Persian king Darius I and the words of Jeremiah 51:11 that God "stirred up" the ...
Articles related to Darius the Mede, a mythological King of Babylon depicted in the Book of Daniel. Pages in category "Darius the Mede" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
In 1957, Wiseman proposed the identification of Darius the Mede in the Book of Daniel with Cyrus the Great. [12] Daniel 6:28 says "So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian" . This could also be translated, "So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius, that is, the reign of Cyrus the Persian."
Datis or Datus (Greek: Δάτης, Old Iranian: *Dātiya-, Achaemenid Elamite: Da-ti-ya [1]) was a Median noble and admiral who served the Persian Empire during the reign of Darius the Great. He was familiar with Greek affairs and maintained connections with Greek leaders. [ 1 ]
Darius conquered the lands surrounding the Indus River in 515 BCE. Darius I controlled the Indus Valley from Gandhara to modern Karachi and appointed the Greek Scylax of Caryanda to explore the Indian Ocean from the mouth of the Indus to Suez. Darius then marched through the Bolan Pass and returned through Arachosia and Drangiana back to Persia.
In Lange's commentary, Otto Zöckler named Gesenius, Hengestenberg, and other more recent writers who equated Cyaxares II with Daniel's Darius the Mede. [9] These commentaries noted similarities between Cyaxares II as portrayed by Xenophon and what may be inferred about Darius the Mede from the sparse statements about him in the Book of Daniel.
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According to the Cyropedia of Xenophon, Gobryas (Ancient Greek: Γοβρύας; Old Persian: 𐎥𐎢𐎲𐎽𐎢𐎺 g-u-b-ru-u-v, reads as Gaub(a)ruva?; [1] Elamite: Kambarma) was a Persian general who helped Cyrus II in the conquering of Babylon in 539 BCE.