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Divorce

Ezra's purity program requires Jewish men to divorce foreign wives and observe temple ritual as mandatory practice.

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Ezra's reform in Jiang's Persian-period account.

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Ezra's purity program requires Jewish men to divorce foreign wives and observe temple ritual as mandatory practice.

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Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire

2024-12-12, day precision · Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah

Transcript

"...is he announces if you are a Jewish man you must divorce a foreign woman if you're married to a foreign woman meaning a..."

The Bible as an Imperial Script

2025-11-18, day precision · Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews

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"...law is that if you marry a foreign woman, you must divorce her. He's bringing up families. Why? Because he believes that religious purity..."

Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart

2025-05-20, day precision · Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia

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"...because the Oblotsky, the husband, they are now engaged in a divorce. And Anna Karenina will come from St. Petersburg to try to reconcile..."

Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart

2025-05-20, day precision · Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia

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"Petersburg. She asks for divorce. The husband won't give it to her. And then she slowly falls into depression. And then she commits to..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"...Martin Luther gives them a proper pretext in order to financially divorce themselves from the Catholic Church, okay? So as I've discussed, what he's..."

Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor

2024-11-19, day precision · Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire

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"...this is a problem because to marry Cleopatra, he has to divorce his wife, who happens to be the sister of Octavian. Okay? So,..."

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Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire

2024-12-12, day precision · claims

Reading

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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