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Persian administrators must remain loyal to the empire rather than becoming corrupt with local satraps, and Zoroastrianism is the system that supports that loyalty.
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Persian administrators must remain loyal to the empire rather than becoming corrupt with local satraps, and Zoroastrianism is the system that supports that loyalty.
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"...region is allowed local autonomy. And each governor is called a satrap. So they are working with the satraps to govern the local area...."
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"...be, have to be, they can't get into bed with the satraps. They can't be cropped together. Okay? Because the system will break down...."
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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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