If you are interested in this subject, look into samaritans. They are a closely related group to jews, but probably had less Babylonian & Persian influence. Th

If you are interested in this subject, look into samaritans. They are a closely related group to jews, but probably had less Babylonian & Persian influence. Their version of the Torah ends with Solomon. To this day, they maintain a religion similar to old temple judaism. High priest, sacrifice, etc. Their Torah is written in the native hebrew script. Jews switched to an assyrian script at some point. Nehemiah (book in the bible) was the first pacha, persian governor of jerusalem. Religious & conservative fanatic, persecuting samaritans and annulling mixed marriages. In any case, the samaritan torah has the same account of abraham as the jewish bible. It's still possible that Persian or Babylonian beliefs & characters were adopted, especially abraham. But, that would have had to happen long before cyrus. Samaritans also have abraham and the divine land grant. I assume you mean the "nile to euphrates" boundary. It's actually very hard to tell what those parts are about. First, it's not actually clear those are the rivers... especially the nile. Second, there are no other passages that relate to this territory. Nehemia doesn't mention or pursue them.