The Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time movie has been described as a ‘swashbuckling’ adventure. This story, adapted from a video game, comes a long way behind in drama and momentum to the real Prince of Persia’s story.
The Great Persian Empire–the first world empire–may never have been if it weren’t for a lonely shepherd who wanted a son…
The incredible story of the release of the Israelites by a Persian king, Cyrus the Great, from their long exile in Babylon, ancient Iraq, has never been written as a novel…until now.
In the novel, As the Eagle, Flies the King, Cyrus the Great’s story is told through the experience of a fourteen-year-old-girl, as she travels the land that became his empire.
This amazing tale of peace–resulting in the first charter of human rights–has been never been told as an English narrative, I believe, because of confusion over the ancient Persian title for a king.
Nabonidus, King of Babylon in 539BC and father of Belshazzar, was not mentioned in the biblical account of Babylon’s fall at the hands of Cyrus, as relayed by the prophet Daniel in the Bible. The reason for this has been debated by biblical scholars.
Some historians believed the book of Daniel to be flawed because there is no mention of Nabonidus as the father of Belshazzar. As we will see, a title is not always a title…
The very existence of King Belshazzar was also in doubt until archeological evidence was found only recently which showed Belshazzar as the same as Marduk-sar-uzar or Baal.[i][i] Many prominent historians support the view that the biblical word “father”—a common ancestral term used by Jesus on many occasions to refer to Abraham—reveals that Nebuchadnezzar, referred to as the “father” of Belshazzar in Daniel 5:2, 11, 13, 18, could well have been his grandfather.
There is much debate about the identity of Darius (sometimes calle Cyrus)…
One theory is that “Darius” is an old Iranian title and that Gubaru, governor of Babylon and the district west of the Euphrates, took this title.[ii][ii] For the purposes of this story, I have used the theory that Darius the Mede mentioned in Daniel 5:31 is Gubaru with the acquired title. When King Cyrus took over Babylon, it was Darius, (or Gubaru) then, who entered the city ahead of him, as the book of Daniel relates. What is so amazing is that this Persian conqueror was welcomed into Babylon as its usurper, without a struggle.
Word for Today: Swashbuckling: Definition: Having great fights and adventures.
As the Eagle, Flies the King is based around the remarkable true story of the release of the Israelites from ancient Babylon by a Persian king. http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-60604-339-4 . http://www.koorong.com.au
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