At 20:17 03/04/2009, you wrote: >It's an interesting period in Jewish history: when people talked >about the Messiah, at that time, they usually meant Cyrus the Great. I think that had to some extent worn off by the time of the setting of the Soldier books, upwards of 50 years after Cyrus's death. Mo # ~ # ~ # WolfeWiki now at: http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/