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The Jewish question tests nation-state logic because Jews possess shared text, language, culture, and history while remaining a stateless nation within other nations.
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The Jewish question tests nation-state logic because Jews possess shared text, language, culture, and history while remaining a stateless nation within other nations.
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Jiang makes the controversial general claim that religions survive because minorities are willing to die for them; compromise alone makes religions disappear quickly.
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"...are lots of Jews throughout Europe at this time. There are minorities in these countries. And the question is, with the rise of the..."
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"Okay? Which gives them a shared language, a shared culture, a shared history. Right? So how do you deal with a people in your..."
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"a law. We want to maintain the purity of our religion because that's the only way to save our people. Okay? And that's why..."
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"the religion, a minority, but still a lot of people who are willing to die for the religion. That's something we'll discuss later on..."
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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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