-B-. 1  Balance The difference between exports and imports. 2  Balance of Payments (BOP) Goods on a Census basis are adjusted by the Bureau of Economic Analysis to goods on a BOP basis to bring the data in line with the concepts and definitions used to prepare the international and national accounts.
Judea or JudÃ¦a (/dÊuËËdiË.É/; from Hebrew: ×××××ââ, Standard YÉhuda, Tiberian YÉhÃ»á¸Äh, Greek: á¼°Î¿ÏÎ´Î±Î¯Î±, IoudaÃ­a; Latin: IÅ«daea, Arabic: ÙÙÙØ¯Ø§ââ, Yahudia) is the ancient Hebrew and Israelite biblical, the exonymic Roman/English, and the modern-day name of the mountainous southern part of Canaan-Israel.
The Close of the Old Testament. Near the close of the Old Testament, about 430 B.C., Judea was a Persian province. Persia had been a world power for about 100 years and remained so for about another 100 years, during which period not much is known of Jewish history. Persian rule was, for the most part, mild and tolerant.