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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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imperial imagination

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

Lecture claim dated 2025-11-18.

diagnosis

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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The Bible as an Imperial Script

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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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