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Jehud pronounced Yehud, was an administrative province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

It was located in the district of the Tribe of Dan. It is commonly believed to have been located at the same place as the modern El Yehudiye or Yehud, about 13 km east of Jaffa. Some suggest that the place instead could have been located close to Yazur/Azor, southeast of Jaffa. This is believed to have been the place that is called Azuru by the Assyrian king Sennacherib.

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References

  1. "Yehud in the Persian Period". Archived from the original on 2022-08-23. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
  2. Betlyon, John Wilson (1986). "The Provincial Government of Persian Period Judea and the Yehud Coins". Journal of Biblical Literature. 105 (4): 633–642. doi:10.2307/3261210. JSTOR   3261210.
  3. "The "Persian" Period".
  4. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/israel-and-empire-a-postcolonial-history-of-israel-and-early-judaism/ch4-the-persian-empire-and-the-colony-of-judah.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  5. "Yehud in the Persian Period". Opening the Books of Moses. BibleWorld. Acumen. 2012. pp. 51–92. ISBN   9781845536848.