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Jiang describes Zoroastrianism as an eschatology of truth versus lie, light versus darkness, final battle, judgment, and heaven on earth.
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Persia
Greek hoplites and Persian horse archers develop from different geographies; Persia cannot use its horse-archer advantage effectively in Greece.
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prediction
Jiang predicts Al-Aqsa will be destroyed and Persia/Iran will rise because eschatology needs the Islamic world united against Israel.
evidence
Macedon's conquest of Persia and Rome's rise repeat the same pattern: poor marginal peoples can defeat wealthy, cultured, apparently invincible centers.
evidence
He cites the Bronze Age collapse as a terrible event that nonetheless led to Israel, the Greeks, and Persia, which he describes as periods of tremendous human creativity.
diagnosis
The Persians are said to solve the Jerusalem problem by financing a Jewish identity implanted in the Levant as a loyal foreign entity.
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Nestorians preserve the idea of Jesus as human messenger rather than God and spread east into Persia, Arabia, and the Middle East after persecution.
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historical-model
Jiang identifies persecution of Jews and the struggle over Jerusalem as the spark of the Arab revolution, with Jews backing Persia to regain the city before Byzantine-backed Christians retaliate.
diagnosis
He says the Greek-Persian encounter follows the borderland pattern: Greeks learn Persian tactics as mercenaries, gain wealth through piracy, provoke invasion, and then defeat a much larger empire.
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"In other words, they are able to work above the bureaucracy of different nation states in order to achieve their eschatological goal, okay? All..."
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"So light versus dark, and then you have a day of judgment. Okay, where the god Ahura Masta will come down and he will..."
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"...will be destroyed. Okay? And then, you have the rise of Persia. The rise of Persia. Why is this important? Because you need the..."
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"...will march against Israel, they're interpreting Gog and Magog to be Persia and Russia."
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"...it was huge it was egypt anatolia mesopotamia the zagros mountains persia it was everywhere and in a very quick amount of time the..."
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"who are the romans well at this time in history we don't know who they are okay um uh rome is probably here somewhere..."
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"Okay, I'll answer the last question first. I was an English major at Yale, okay? So I know a lot about English poetry. Milton..."
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"It led to the Greeks. It led to the rise of Persia. And these three different civilizations were pairs of tremendous creativity in the..."
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"...the locals. And the Jews will not be forever loyal to Persia because they are a foreign entity within the Levant. And only by..."
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"...were persecuted by the Catholic church. And so they went to Persia. They went to the Middle East, they went to Persia, they went..."
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"So the major event that sparks the Arab revolution is the persecution of the Jews, okay? So, Alan, can you read please?"
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"Okay, so the Jews want to return to Jerusalem. Remember, the Romans kicked the Jews out of Jerusalem. So they make a deal with..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang makes the Iran war a test of religious prediction: if Al-Aqsa survives and peace arrives, his model fails.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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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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