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The decree allowing exiles to return to Jerusalem, interpreted biblically as God's command and strategically by Jiang as imperial policy.
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Edict of Cyrus
The decree allowing exiles to return to Jerusalem, interpreted biblically as God's command and strategically by Jiang as imperial policy.
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The biblical explanation for Cyrus returning exiles is divine command, but Jiang rejects that as insufficient for historical explanation.
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"...still around the identity of the israelites are now gone 539 cyrus the great conquers babylon okay and he says i want the israelites..."
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"...will never ever end okay so the bible tells us that cyrus the great did this because god told me to do that very..."
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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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