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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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Persian Jews
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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"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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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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