The capacity of empires to invent or manipulate identity in order to govern strategic regions.
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imperial imagination
The capacity of empires to invent or manipulate identity in order to govern strategic regions.
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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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