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Jiang's name for Israelites who remained in the Levant and adapted to mixed religious households after conquest.
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Samaritans
Jiang's name for Israelites who remained in the Levant and adapted to mixed religious households after conquest.
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Jiang distinguishes Samaritans as Israelites who stayed and adapted through intermarriage and multiple faiths, while Babylonian Jews became more radical about one faith.
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The Persian return policy creates conflict between Jews and Samaritans so Persia can arbitrate local religious division.
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"...still Israelites living there and they are now call this the Samaritans okay and then you have the Jews okay the Jews is a..."
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"...for us to understand is the Jews who return to the Samaritans are only the most fanatical Jews, okay? There's only a minority of..."
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"So the Jews argue for purity, the Samaritans argue for tolerance. And so this is a power struggle, a religious power struggle. In 443..."
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"...our religion. They go back and they see their people, the Samaritans, now adopt foreign gods. And they were like, this is why we..."
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A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...
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