Week 1 - Cyrus at Babylon

Essay: ‘Tolerance, Multi-Culturalism, Human Rights’.  Is this a fair summary of the cultural and religious policies of Cyrus and Cambyses?
 
Presentation 1: The Cyrus Cylinder
Presentation 2: Egyptian sources on Cambyses
 
Primary:
 
Cyrus:
The Nabonidus Chronicle (see sources below)
The ‘Cyrus Cylinder’ (see sources below)
Verse account of Nabonidus and Cyrus (Kuhrt pp. 75-80)
Dynastic prophecy (Kuhrt pp. 80-81)
Ezra chh.1-6; Isaiah chh. 41-45
Herodotus 1.106-130
Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.1-3
 
Cambyses:
Inscription of Udjahorresne (see sources below)
Inscriptions concerning the Apis bull (see sources below)
Demotic Chronicle on Cambyses’ administration of Egypt (Kuhrt pp. 125-127)
Herodotus 3.1-38
 
Secondary:
 
General and introductory:
 
A. Kuhrt, The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period (2007), 47-103 (Cyrus), 104-134 (Cambyses)
 
P. Briant, From Cyrus to Alexander 43-49 (Cyrus), 55-61 (Cambyses)
 
M. Waters, Ancient Persia, 35-51 (Cyrus), 52-7 (Cambyses)
 
Cyrus and Babylon:
 
A. Kuhrt, ‘The Cyrus Cylinder and Achaemenid Imperial Policy’, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 25 (1983) 83-97
 
A. Kuhrt, ‘Nabonidus and the Babylonian Priesthood’, in M. Beard & J. North (eds), Pagan Priests (1990) 117-155 
 
R. J. van der Spek, 'Cyrus the Great, Exiles, and Foreign Gods', in Extraction and Control, eds. W. Henkelman et al. (2014), 233-264
 
Cyrus and the Jews: 
 
E. Bickerman, ‘The Edict of Cyrus in Ezra 1’, Studies in Jewish and Christian History I (1976) 72-108 
 
L.S. Fried, ‘Cyrus the Messiah? The Historical Background to Isaiah 45:1’, Harvard Theological Review 95/4 (2002), 373-93
 
D. Edelman, The Origins of the ‘Second’ Temple: Persian Imperial Policy and the Rebuilding of Jerusalem (2005) 181-185
 
Cambyses and Egypt: 
 
A.B. Lloyd, ‘The Inscription of Udjaḥorrasnet: A Collaborator’s Testament’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 68 (1982) 166-180.