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Jews in Babylon and later diaspora communities may be happy where they are, but empires send them back to Jerusalem to create a province and conflict with locals.
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Jews in Babylon and later diaspora communities may be happy where they are, but empires send them back to Jerusalem to create a province and conflict with locals.
Cyrus's revolutionary move is to make conquered kings advisers instead of publicly humiliating and executing them.
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"Okay? So, but the problem is because we don't have access to writing, their writing, we have absolutely, we know very little about him...."
"...Israel, we will discover that it's actually part of the British imperial policy. Okay? But the British themselves cannot be seen as the ones..."
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