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Paul's proto-Christianity recasts the Messiah from a prophet of war into a prophet of peace, letting diaspora Jews assimilate into Roman society while retaining Jewish identity.
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Diaspora Jews
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Paul's church was seen as an escape mechanism for diaspora Jews from repeated Roman-Jewish wars.
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Jiang says Israel should be understood as a Zionist project rather than a Jewish project, and that most Jews in Europe originally had little interest in leaving comfortable lives for Palestine or Uganda.
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"OK, so first and first of all, we have to remember that Israel, it's a Zionist project. It's not a Jewish project. And what..."
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"The Jews believed the Romans were evil. Eventually a Messiah will emerge from the ranks from the house of David who will lead them..."
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"Jesus was Jewish and this is a Jewish religion, but you will be part of the Roman Empire now rather than part of just..."
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"Their denomination in Jerusalem was targeted, and they were extinguished, okay? So this is important because remember, the major authority figure at this time..."
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"...these wars the church was seen as an escape mechanism for diaspora Jews from these wars does that make sense okay all right the..."
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"The synagogue is a place of worship for Diaspora Jews because Jews worship the temple, right? But the temple's in Jerusalem. So if you're..."
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"His message was for Diaspora Jews like him. Who were stuck between the Roman Empire. And the Jewish faith. Right? They were part of..."
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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Jiang treats the next Israel-Iran war not as another regional flare-up but as the real conflict the earlier 12-day war only rehearsed.
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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