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Priestly Jewish nobility associated with temple ritual.
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Sadducees
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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"They are called the Sadducees. Who are the Sadducees? The Sadducees are the royalty of the religion. These are priests that go back generations...."
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"...closest disciples, he will betray you to the Pharisees or the Sadducees. I can't remember. Okay. But you'll be betrayed by one of your..."
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"...there were like three major factions in Jerusalem. They were the Sadducees, there were the Pharisees, and the Essenes. They all hated each other...."
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"...person, you must make animal sacrifices to Yahweh, and therefore, the Sadducees, these are hereditary priests, they are the ones who control the religion...."
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"...And so the rabbis come into power. Before it was the Sadducees, the priests who control the temple, who are in charge. Now it's..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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