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Azerbaijani people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (6140 words)
	The Medes forged a vast empire between 900-700 BCE, which was overthrown by the Achaemenids around 600 BCE.
	Caucasian Albanians established a kingdom in the 1st century BCE and largely remained independent until the Sassanids made the kingdom a vassal state in 252 CE.
	The Iranian origin theory is based upon the ancient presence of Iranic tribes, such as the Medes, in Iranian Azarbaijan, and Scythian invasions during the eighth century BCE.

"Post-Exilic" Genesis (long) (858 words)
	Hess concludes that if qyn is the onomastic background to Hebrew qayin, then Cain could be dated to the latter half of the first millenium, i.e., after 500 BCE (p.35, Hess).Hess does note Cain might be derived from qinah, "song", but qinah does not appear in a qatil form (p.25).
	Serug is attested in 7th century BCE in texts from the Harran area as uru sa-ru-gi (p.85, Hess).
	Hess concluded that many of the names found in Genesis (not listed by me) could be attested in 2nd millenium texts, but he also noted that some of the names are attested only in first millenium texts, and some were quite late, after 500 BCE.

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