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Early Israelite religion is described as aspirationally monotheistic but socially polytheistic, with Judaism-like commitment mainly shared by elites.
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Elite Religion
Early Israelite religion is described as aspirationally monotheistic but socially polytheistic, with Judaism-like commitment mainly shared by elites.
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Jiang qualifies 'best religion' to mean intellectually powerful and attractive to elite administrators, not universally or morally superior.
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"And at this point, there are certain characteristics about this new religion, or this new nation. And again, I will have to oversimplify for..."
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"The elite people, okay? King David, his family, and the priests, and maybe other people in the elite. Okay? Second thing is it is..."
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"is so powerful that it will be adopted into Judaism and eventually become the basis for Christianity. Okay? But this is where it started...."
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"just going to believe what your father and your grandfather believed okay so think of this religion almost as the equivalent of the confusion..."
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"want a popular religion they're not trying to they're not they're not trying to promote their religion okay they're trying to use their religion..."
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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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