A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

The people of Israel remained fragmented until the emergence of Moses. He began to reunite Israel under his leadership until ...

The fate of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei emerges as a bellwether of the war’s ultimate aims. Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of ...

President Donald Trump's apparent willingness to extend a lifeline to Iran's Ayatollah, despite the Islamic Revolutionary ...

Cyrus, known as king of kings or Shahenshah, is remembered particularly by Jewish and Christian scholars for his support for Jews.

The Babylonians deported the Judean elite to Babylonia, thus beginning that period known as the Babylonian Exile. Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a ...

Hessom Razavi’s family fled to Australia from Iran in the 1980s to escape persecution. As he watches events unfold, he speaks to relatives still there and reflects on Iran’s fate.

The shared history of Jewish and Persian civilizations—dating back to the days of Cyrus the Great and the Babylonian exile—is often erased in today’s geopolitical discourse.

In the first known interaction between the two nations, the ancient Persians freed the Jews from captivity in Babylon.