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The capacity of empires to invent or manipulate identity in order to govern strategic regions.
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imperial imagination
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...to you that Israel and the Jewish identity are constructs of Imperial imagination. Okay. Um, and this is hard to understand, so I'm going..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...to you that Israel and the Jewish identity are constructs of Imperial imagination. Okay. Um, and this is hard to understand, so I'm going..."
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The lecture thesis is that Israel and Jewish identity are constructs of imperial imagination, repeatedly manipulated by empires because the land is strategically important.
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"...to you that Israel and the Jewish identity are constructs of Imperial imagination. Okay. Um, and this is hard to understand, so I'm going..."
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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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