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The exile after Babylon destroys Judah and holds the elite in Babylonia.
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Babylonian captivity
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During Babylonian captivity, written memory of David and the Bible sustains Jewish identity and channels the exiled elite into intellectual and administrative work.
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"And this is what is called the Babylonian captivity. And while the Israelites are there, they're trying to hold on to the memory of..."
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"...as a people. Okay? Okay. That's it. So they are in Babylonian captivity for almost 70 years. So they are in Babylonian captivity for..."
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"...priests important? Then you have people at this point in the Babylonian captivity looking back at the history of Israel and trying to figure..."
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A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...
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The Bible begins, in this lecture's argument, as political spin for David: a library of collective imagination that turns usurpation, murder, and fear of rivals into legitimacy, identity, and eventually literature.
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