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Ezra marks Israelites who stayed in the land as unclean traitors because they worship foreign gods, which Jiang calls a fanatical understanding of Judaism.
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Foreign gods
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"And now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments. Which You are commanded by Your servants, the..."
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"...are traitors. They are now unclean. Why? Because now they worship foreign gods. They're polytheistic. And as a result, we have to clean the..."
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"Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters from your sons, and never seek their peace or propriety, so..."
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"...a foreign woman she's going to make you believe in their foreign God. Remember, it is by worshipping false idols. It's because of this..."
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"The first reason is because we start to worship foreign gods, okay? That's the first reason. Second reason is because we start to have..."
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"...go back and they see their people, the Samaritans, now adopt foreign gods. And they were like, this is why we fail as a..."
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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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