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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 divine city in Jiang's reading: built by gods for gods, and used to naturalize human service and urban captivity.
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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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"...-seeing eye, the pyramid, all the symbolism comes from Egypt, Greece, Babylon, okay?"
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"...was able to build the first world empire. Okay? This is Babylon, the fall of Babylon. And Cyrus the Great, there are different stories,..."
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"...they take hostages like thousands of them and move them to babylon where they become scribes where they become farmers where they become merchants..."
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"...of the israelites are now gone 539 cyrus the great conquers babylon okay and he says i want the israelites to return to jerusalem..."
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"is why would size the great go to babylon said you know what i want you israelites to return to jerusalem i want you..."
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"...possible that there's a faction within the israelites who supported his babylon over okay i don't know if this is true it's probably not..."
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"intellectuals and they rise up very high in the babylon administration but this is true history where where jewish people will rise very high..."
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