Jiang suggests the Jews from Babylon are acting as imperial agents sowing discontent in the region.
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Babylonian Jews
Jiang suggests the Jews from Babylon are acting as imperial agents sowing discontent in the region.
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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..."
"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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