Opposition to the temple continues because the Babylonian returnees insist only they are real Israelites while locals want shared participation.
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Returnees
Opposition to the temple continues because the Babylonian returnees insist only they are real Israelites while locals want shared participation.
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"Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and they made them afraid to build, and they bribed officials to frustrate..."
"Okay, so they try to build the temple, but it doesn't really work out because there's so much opposition, right? The Jews who've come..."
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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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