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Persian imperial rule adds administration, meritocracy, communication networks, and divide-and-rule to older methods like trade control, fear, hostages, and intermarriage.
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Persian Empire
Persian imperial rule adds administration, meritocracy, communication networks, and divide-and-rule to older methods like trade control, fear, hostages, and intermarriage.
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The next lecture is previewed as Zoroastrianism, whose merger with the Bible under Persian imperial conditions will create ideas that become the basis of Christianity.
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Jiang says the term 'Jews' appears only after Persia returns the Israelite elite around 500 BCE; before that they were Israelites.
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He identifies four major biblical schools or factions: J for David/Judah legitimacy, E for the Northern Kingdom, P for priestly power, and D for explaining Israel's fall as disobedience to God; Persia later forces them into one document.
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Jiang says Ptolemaic Egypt posed a different problem because Egyptian culture was ancient, proud, and resistant to foreign rulers, making mere tolerance insufficient for legitimacy.
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"...But what the Persians did really well that allowed for the Persian Empire to be so huge, as well as to be really well..."
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"Okay? Elite computation, meritocracy. And the idea here is that if you have a very effective administration, that allows for local elites to focus..."
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"...we will look at the religion of Zoroastrianism. Because when the Persian Empire conquers the world Zoroastrianism their religion will start to merge with..."
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"and have them govern the Levant based on... and have them govern the Levant, okay? Does that make sense? And it is only at..."
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"Okay? To Judah. But the Northern Kingdom now needs its own mythology. Its own Bible. Right? And so a second Bible was created. The..."
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"Okay? The J school. Don't worry about this. I'll explain to you next class what these things mean. The people who support the Northern..."
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"...You don't like foreign rulers. And this is something that the Persian Empire struggled with throughout the centuries that it dominated Egypt. Okay? The..."
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"...this is the first eschatology. And it's an eschatology of the Persian Empire, okay? In the world, there's truth and a lie, okay? The..."
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"...then do the impossible and go over and conquer the great persian empire the first great empire in human history it was huge it..."
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"...basically come in and unify the entire area and create the persian empire all right so this is a pattern that emerges throughout human..."
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"...the empire. And as such, it engages in wars with the Persian Empire, okay? And this will define most of its history. Its capital,..."
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"...of resistance to the Holy Trinity, Christians are forced into the Persian Empire and into the Arabian desert, okay?"
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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 the lecture's central argument: the Hebrew Bible becomes world-shaping not because it records early history, but because David's political project finds a poet-god, a poet-king, and a Yahwist whose few...
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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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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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