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Before exile, Jiang describes Israelite religion as local and polytheistic, with Yahweh perhaps supreme or coequal in a pantheon.
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Israelite Religion
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"Yep. Yeah, that's fine. Yep. Okay. So that's a good question. So the argument I'm trying to make to you is, the Bible says..."
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"It's a polytheistic religion with a pantheon of gods, okay? And maybe Yahweh's at the top, or maybe Yahweh's co -equal, okay? We don't..."
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"...will happen is, the merger of the Persian religion with the Israelite religion, which creates a new religion, okay? Now, the religion of the..."
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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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The Bible begins, in this lecture's argument, as political spin for David: a library of collective imagination that turns usurpation, murder, and fear of rivals into legitimacy, identity, and eventually literature.
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