[[1]] Cyrus became King of Persia 546 B.C., conquered Babylon 538, died 528 B.C.
[[2]] Cuneiform writing made by order of Cyrus.
[[3]] The Codex Babylonicus, the earliest known Jewish manuscript, dates from the year A.D. 916.
CHAPTER VI
THE ATTACK ON THE SCRIPTURES
ut troubled times came again to Jerusalem. The great empires of Babylon and Assyria had passed away for ever, exactly as the prophets of Israel had foretold; but new powers had arisen in the world, and the great nations fought together so constantly that all the smaller countries, and with them the Kingdom of Judah, changed hands very often.