HIST 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Books Of Kings, Zoroastrianism, Lowkey
7 Feb 2018
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622 saw two great empires (byzantine and persian) 610 persians (zoroastrian) reached the gates of constantinople. Arabia divided into 3 (happy in the south) Various contacts between jews and arabs before the prophet arrived. 1 kings - elijah was fed by ravens (which is very close in spelling to arabs as hebrew uses no vowels when writing. Around 300 there is a kingdom in () various inscriptions of jewish names found there. 4th century - christian monks report that jews were seeking to convert people to judaism. Stuck between two empiric conversionists - zorastrian and christian. Judaism was seen as a solid third option - respected and still outside of the other two empires. Becomes its own kingdom with dhu nuas as king. Facing ethiopian invasion - persians do not come through. Three cities in the north yathrib being one the others mecca and khaibar. Participated in the city life as clients of larger non-jewish clans.
