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Biblical book and priestly figure Jiang uses to study Persian-backed Jewish reconstitution.
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Ezra
Biblical book and priestly figure Jiang uses to study Persian-backed Jewish reconstitution.
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Ezra and Nehemiah show the process by which Persia helped Jews reconstitute their nation, and Jiang says studying them reveals how current Israeli actors think.
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Ezra presents Cyrus as moved by God to rebuild the Jerusalem temple rather than by imperial ambition.
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Ezra is presented as an exiled-family priest and intellectual who is considered the creator of the Bible in its current form.
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Artaxerxes' letter authorizes Ezra to go to Jerusalem and fund worship at the temple.
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Ezra's prayer frames exile, return, and divine demand as the problem of what God wants after Babylon.
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Ezra explains Babylonian exile as punishment for refusing to obey and worship Yahweh and for worshiping false gods.
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Ezra proves loyalty to God through purity: Jews must not intermarry with foreign religions or peoples.
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Ezra is the priest who creates the Bible, while Nehemiah is the Persian-sent governor who reestablishes the Jewish nation.
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"...we make gl sistema um you're going to read badを右手に But Ezra and Nehemiah shows us how Persia helped the Jews to reconstitute their..."
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"In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order that the world of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be..."
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"Okay, so this is really important for us to understand, okay? According to the Bible, Cyrus is doing this because God told him to..."
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"Thus says King Cyrus of Persia, The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has..."
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"Gave to the priest Ezra, the scribe. A scholar of the text of the commandments of the Lord and his status for Israel."
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"Okay, so Ezra is one of these Israelites who comes from a family that was exiled to Babylon. But he's a priest, and he's..."
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"Artaxerxes, king of kings. To the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven. Peace and now. I decree that..."
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"And you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God in Jerusalem."
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"...really important, okay? This is a letter by King Artaxerxes authorizing Ezra to build the second temple, okay? Why is this important? Because this..."
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"Oh, my God, I'm too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our inequities have risen higher than our..."
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"So, this is a speech by Ezra, okay? He returns to Jerusalem, and now he has to reflect on what God wants, okay? So,..."
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"And our guilt has mounted up to the heavens. From the days of our ancestors to this day, we have been deep in guilt...."
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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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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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