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Persian king named in the Ezra material authorizing Ezra's mission.
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Artaxerxes
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "This is a copy of the letter that King and, can you help me?"
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Artaxerxes' letter authorizes Ezra to go to Jerusalem and fund worship at the temple.
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Jiang reads the 1917 Balfour Declaration as analogous to Artaxerxes' authorization of Ezra.
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"This is a copy of the letter that King and, can you help me?"
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"Artaxerxes is this great warrior in Persia, okay? Great warrior. Keep on going."
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"Artaxerxes, king of kings. To the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven. Peace and now. I decree that..."
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"And you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God in Jerusalem."
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"...This is really important, okay? This is a letter by King Artaxerxes authorizing Ezra to build the second temple, okay? Why is this important?..."
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"Okay. I have much pleasure in conveying. I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty's government the following declaration..."
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"This is almost like the Artaxerxes Declaration, right? You see how in the Bible, Artaxerxes writes a letter to Ezra and says, hey, I..."
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"Artaxerxes. My bad. When wine was served him, I carried the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's claim that Jewish identity is not treated here as simple continuity from ancient Israel, but as a Persian imperial construction: a Bible-shaped, temple-centered, purity-bound people made to stabilize and...
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