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246 Figure 84 corded on the Cylinder of Cyrus (Fig. 84), now in the British Museum in London. To the Jewish exiles he issued a special proclamation permitting their return to Judaea and the re- building of the Temple in Jerusalem; he was doing so, the Bible states, because he was "charged to do so" by "Yah- weh, the God of Heaven." DIVINE ENCOUNTERS