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The condition of Jews being spread around the world rather than centered in Jerusalem.
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diaspora
The condition of Jews being spread around the world rather than centered in Jerusalem.
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He distinguishes anti-Zionism from anti-Semitism and says the surge of anti-Semitism after October 7 can be read inside the model as pressure to drive Jews back to Israel.
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He says Jewish refugees treated Khazaria as a national home and brought superior culture, crafts, agriculture, trade, alphabet, and religious practices.
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Frankist networks are presented as useful imperial agents because they had diaspora reach, crypto-Jewish identity, capital, revolutionary cells, and a theology of destruction-for-salvation.
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The Roman destruction of the Second Temple is treated as the event that shifts Judaism from temple sacrifice to rabbinic law.
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Roman-Jewish conflict was structurally difficult because Jews were monotheistic, refused emperor worship, were spread throughout the empire, and formed a substantial share of some urban populations.
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The Jewish-Roman war of 66 to 73 CE created three conditions favorable to Paul's church: temple destruction, destruction of James' group, and fear among diaspora Jews.
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Fanaticism is the ultimate weapon because it cannot be defeated by destroying a place; diaspora and persecution make it grow.
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Paul's target audience was not fanatical Jews but diaspora Jews caught between Jewish faith and Roman imperial life.
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"Okay? So, I'm not saying this is true, but I'm saying that if the goal is Pax Judica, it does help us connect the..."
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"The only mercy shown by history to those who took to flight or were driven to it was the existence of Khazaria both before..."
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"...about Khazaria because they're traders, they're merchants. They're part of the diaspora. So information is spreading about Khazaria and they all go there. And..."
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"Before, it was a refugee haven. After, it became a kind of national home. The refugees were products of a superior culture and were..."
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"also brought with them Byzantine arts and crafts superior methods in agriculture and trade and the square Hebrew alphabet."
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"So not only did the Khazars wanted their own religion that was distinct from Byzantines and the Abbasids but they also wanted the skills,..."
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"...Empire were fourfold. The first is that they already had a diaspora. And they were also crypto -Jews."
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"They also discussed identity as Jews as well. So they were able, as a network, to conduct intelligence, do blackmail, and subvert governments. They..."
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"Okay? All right. So, and it made sense for the British to align themselves with the 17th Frankish, because the way they saw the..."
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"...major wars between the Romans and the Jews. The entire Jewish diaspora will revolt against the Romans, and this will lead to many, many..."
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"So when the Second Temple is destroyed, what happened is that the Jews, or many Jews will choose to convert to Christianity. Okay. Because..."
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"...Moses. Okay. So they become the new elite in the Jewish diaspora. And so as we discussed, a lot of Jews at this time..."
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