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The decipherment of the ancient cuneiform scripts was one of the major breakthroughs in nineteenth-century archaeology and linguistics. Among the scholars working on Old Persian was Christian Lassen (1800-76), professor of Sanskrit at Bonn. Lassen's book on cuneiform inscriptions from Persepolis appeared in 1836, a month before his friend Eugène Burnouf independently published very similar conclusions. Lassen's account gives vivid insights into the detective work involved, as he painstakingly compares individual words and grammatical forms with their Avestan and Sanskrit equivalents, and proposes sounds for the symbols. The book uses a specially designed cuneiform font, and credits the printer, Georgi of Bonn. This Cambridge Library Collection volume also includes a short monograph on Old Persian phonology published in Berlin in 1847 by the Assyriologist Julius Oppert (1825-1905). Oppert revisits Lassen's conclusions in the light of Henry Creswicke Rawlinson's important 1846 memoir on the trilingual Behistun inscription.

Achaemenian inscriptions. --- Old Persian inscriptions. --- Behistun inscriptions --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Persian --- Inscriptions, Behistun --- Inscriptions, Persian (Old) --- Persian cuneiform inscriptions --- Persian literature --- Cuneiform inscriptions --- Old Persian language --- Inscriptions, Achaemenian --- Cuneiform writing --- Old Persian inscriptions --- Old Persian

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The redactional history of the book of Nehemiah is a hotly debated topic within scholarship. While a general consensus both attributes Neh. 1:1-2:20; 4:1-7:5; and 13:4-31 to the Nehemiah Memoir and postulates the influence of ancient Near Eastern royal inscriptions, previous scholarship lacks a systematic examination of Persian-period royal inscriptions in discussing the redactional history of Nehemiah. This present book examines Persian-period inscriptions from Judah's neighbors, Babylonia and Egypt, and identifies a propaganda model in which Persian kings are supported by the local deities and are heirs to the local dynasties. This propaganda model resembles depictions of Artaxerxes in sections of Nehemiah often attributed to the Memoir. Challenging a recent trend attributing religious references to Hellenistic redactions, this study finds that references in Nehemiah to divine authorization of Artaxerxes akin to the royal propaganda model in Persian-period texts from Babylon and Egypt most likely date to the Persian-period Nehemiah Memoir due to a shared literary context.

Cuneiform inscriptions [Persian ] --- Inscriptions [Behistun ] --- Inscriptions [Persian ] (Old) --- Old Persian inscriptions --- Judaism --- Old Persian inscriptions. --- History --- Nehemiah --- Bible. --- Historiography. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 222.7 --- Kronieken. Ezra. Nehemia --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Nehemiah (Governor of Judah) --- Bible. O.T. Nehemiah --- Bible. O.T. Historical books --- Historiography --- Judaism and state --- Yehud (Persian province) --- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. --- Kings and rulers --- Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. --- Nehemiah - (Governor of Judah)

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Achaemenian inscriptions --- Old Persian inscriptions --- Inscriptions achéménides --- Inscriptions vieux-perses --- Darius --- Bisutun (Iran) --- Antiquities --- Achaemenian inscriptions. --- Old Persian inscriptions. --- Behistun inscriptions --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Persian --- Inscriptions, Behistun --- Inscriptions, Persian (Old) --- Persian cuneiform inscriptions --- Persian literature --- Cuneiform inscriptions --- Old Persian language --- Inscriptions, Achaemenian --- Cuneiform writing --- Old Persian --- Inscriptions achéménides --- Bīsutūn (Iran) --- Bisutun Site (Iran) --- Behistun Site (Iran) --- Bisetun Site (Iran) --- Bisitan Site (Iran) --- Bīsitūn Site (Iran) --- Bisotun Site (Iran) --- Iran