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Why did Cyrus the Great suddenly decide to release the Jews from Babylon, install them back in Jerusalem and build them a new temple to a God he didn't even believe in? It seems bizarrely altruistic, what was his real agenda?

by /u/eeeeeep in /r/AskHistorians

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