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Greek translation of the Jewish Bible, interpreted by Jiang as a Ptolemaic project to recruit Jewish elites and control the Levant.
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Septuagint
Greek translation of the Jewish Bible, interpreted by Jiang as a Ptolemaic project to recruit Jewish elites and control the Levant.
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He reads the Septuagint as a Ptolemaic strategy to bribe Jewish priests, control the Levant, and fold Jewish culture into Greek imperial administration.
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"...it around the world and this is what we call the Septuagint the Septuagint okay it's really important uh in our history um and..."
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"the empire to rule over people okay so the library of sorry the library of Alexandria is an example of this because remember the..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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