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After Solomon, Israel splits into northern Israel and Judah; repeated pressure from regional empires ends with Babylon destroying the temple and dissolving Israelite identity.
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After Solomon, Israel splits into northern Israel and Judah; repeated pressure from regional empires ends with Babylon destroying the temple and dissolving Israelite identity.
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Returning Babylonian exiles claim to be the true Israelites and cast those who stayed as false, creating near civil war that serves Persian divide-and-rule.
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Locals who identify as Israelites ask to build with the returnees, but the returnees exclude them as false Israelites.
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Jiang says Jewish monotheism begins here and is heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism, making it distinct from earlier Israelite polytheism.
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The Persian Jews are not the same as the Israelites of David, and their small loyal province in the Levant is useful to Persia.
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Jiang distinguishes Israelites, Jews, and Israelis, insisting Israeli state actors are responsible for current violence rather than Jews as a religious/diaspora people.
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The next lecture will show how the Greeks, Israelites, and Persians interact historically.
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Jiang says the Israelites who founded the religion are very different from the people called Jews today, because the tradition changed so drastically that continuity is misleading.
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"...doesn't last very long after some in history um uh the israelites are being pulled in different directions okay the anatolians the assyrians the..."
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"...longest time the battle owners are trying to deal with the israelites okay so they take hostages okay they take hostages like thousands of..."
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"...so when this happens because we don't want to understand the israelites are gone okay the people are still around the identity of the..."
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"...women as well but they still get some because consumers as israelites okay right does that make sense guys so what but what happens..."
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"When the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel, they..."
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"Okay, so they're saying, we're Israelites just as you guys, okay? We stayed, but you guys left. So, actually, we're better than you are,..."
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"And we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of King Esarhaddon of Assyria, who brought us here. But Zerubbabel, Jerusha, Jeshua,..."
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"This is really weird, right? You're all Israelites. Why? Why is it that? No, we are the true Israelites you guys are the false..."
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"...will practice from now on is not the religion of the Israelites, which is polytheistic. They will now practice a new religion that's heavily..."
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"In fact, what Ezra is doing is rejecting the Israelite heritage and accepting a new heritage based on blood purity and a monophistic devotion..."
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"...Don't say the Jews, okay? There are different groups. There's the Israelites. The Israelites are the time of King David. They're gone, okay? Let's..."
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"...over into the three major civilizations okay the greeks uh the israelites and the persians that that have come after Frühling or Br gewalt..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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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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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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