10 Facts About Persian period

Persian period succeeded in doing so but encountered strong resistance from the "people of the land", the officials of Samaria and other provinces and peoples around Jerusalem.

Persia controlled Yehud using the same methods it used in other colonies, and the bible reflects this, and Yehud's status as a Persian colony is crucial to understanding the society and literature of the period.

Persian period would have been assisted by various officials and a body of scribes, but there is no evidence that a popular "assembly" existed, and he would have had little discretion over his core duties.

Evidence from seals and coins suggests that most, if not all, of the governors of Persian period Yehud were Jewish, a situation which conforms with the general Persian period practice of governing through local leaders.

Coins, jar-stamp impressions, and seals from the Persian period are giving us the names of Elnathan, Hananiah, Jehoezer, Ahzai and Urio, all of them Jewish names.

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Bagoas the Persian period is known by this short form of several theophoric names that was often used for eunuchs.

Persian period is mentioned in the 5th-century Elephantine papyri, and must therefore have served after Nehemiah.

Possibly the single most important development in the post-Exilic Persian period was the promotion and eventual dominance of the idea and practice of Jewish exclusivity, the idea that the Jews were or should be a race apart from all others.

One of the more important cultural shifts in the Persian period was the rise of Aramaic as the predominant language of Yehud and the Jewish diaspora.

Only a small amount of Hebrew-written epigraphic material from the Persian period has survived, including some coins from Tell Jemmeh and Beth-zur using the Paleo-Hebrew script, two seal impressions on bullae from a cave in Wadi Daliyeh, a seal from Tell Michal, etc.