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Jiang suggests the Jews from Babylon are acting as imperial agents sowing discontent in the region.
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Babylonian Jews
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay, so they try to build the temple, but it doesn't really work out because there's so much opposition, right? The Jews who've come..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay, so they try to build the temple, but it doesn't really work out because there's so much opposition, right? The Jews who've come..."
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Jews in Babylon and later diaspora communities may be happy where they are, but empires send them back to Jerusalem to create a province and conflict with locals.
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"Okay, so they try to build the temple, but it doesn't really work out because there's so much opposition, right? The Jews who've come..."
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"Jews did not want to go to Jerusalem because they were happy where they were. Okay? There were a lot of Jews who were..."
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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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