Glossary
The divine city in Jiang's reading: built by gods for gods, and used to naturalize human service and urban captivity.
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Babylon
The war on Iran is the visible spark.
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The war on Iran is the visible spark.
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diagnosis
He reads Babylon's divine construction as a political trap: if the city is built by and for the gods, residents are taught that their enslavement is their proper home.
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Babylon's internal religious-political conflict makes Cyrus's reputation for mercy strategically powerful before conquest.
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Cyrus claims Babylonia as his greatest conquest because he wins it through generosity and mercy rather than mass killing.
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After Babylon destroys Jerusalem in 586, most Israelites remain in Judea while the elite are moved to Babylonia and others go to Egypt, producing diaspora without emptying the homeland.
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"...we get towards the end and this is to establish that Babylon is the divine city. If it's divine, it means you can't leave..."
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"...this, he beamed as brightly as the light of day. Build Babylon the task you have sought. Let bricks for it be molded and..."
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"...getting along. The king wants to change the official god of Babylon from Marduk to Sin because the king wants to establish his own..."
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"So what they do is the nobility strikes a deal with Cyrus the Great. And Cyrus the Great conquers Babylonia without doing anything. And..."
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"...So now you create something called a diaspora. They're either in Babylon or they're in Egypt. But the majority are still at home in..."
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"...the wealthiest parts of the world. By the way, Mesopotamia includes Babylon and Assyria. Okay? All right? So, everyone wants to conquer Egypt. But..."
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"Let's just remove them from Israel. So they went to Babylon, something called the Babylon exile. Okay? But remember, they have the Bible with..."
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"...they stretch all the way back to Rome, okay? Or maybe Babylon. And what allows for people to believe that this is continuous is..."
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"...sides. So they basically kidnap their elite and sent off to Babylon, something called the Babylonian exile. Yeah. And this is has always"
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"...it was also polytheistic. Monotheism is something that comes after the Babylon exile. But at that point, it was an extremely open, polytheistic, welcoming..."
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"And ultimately, it led to the Babylon exile. And that's what—and that's where most scholars believe the Bible was actually written or most of..."
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"...of God? Why were you enslaved and put into captivity in Babylon? Why were you, why, like, why are you being massacred? Alright, so..."
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