The Escape Valve
…The Musandam Peninsula points up at Iran; the Persian Gulf is to the left, the Gulf of Oman…
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The Same Barrel
…of its Group III from three refineries on the Persian Gulf: Shell's Pearl GTL plant in Qatar…
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Esther — Introduction
📜 Table of Contents › Esther 📖 Esther אֶסְתֵּר Ester — 'Esther' — probably from Persian stara or Median, 'star,' or from…
Ezra — Introduction
…A Persian emperor’s rescript is introduced with the prophets’ own formula, “thus says Cyrus”; the same verb that stirs…
Daniel — Introduction
…The book is named for its hero, a young Judean exile in the Babylonian and Persian courts — and it is…
Nehemiah — Introduction
…He is in the Persian winter palace at Susa when men from Judah bring news that Jerusalem still lies open…
Haggai — Introduction
…It is the most precisely dated book in the Old Testament, and the dating by a Persian regnal year rather…
Eden — Atlas
…Persian Gulf; that would place Eden itself in the area of modern Kuwait, or just offshore under the Gulf. Guarded…
Malachi — Introduction
…Try that on the Persian governor, says Malachi — and then, astonishingly, in the last book of the Old Testament: ‘from…
Ezra 1
…it wakes a Persian emperor and it wakes a handful of Judean householders, and the book treats those as the…
Eden — Encyclopedia
…Persian Gulf; that would place Eden itself in the area of modern Kuwait, or just offshore under the Gulf. Guarded…
1 Chronicles — Introduction
…Scriptures end not with a prophet but with a Persian king's decree telling the exiles to go home and…
