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Jiang argues the Sabine women stopping the war is implausible and functions as a founding myth that makes victims authorize Rome.
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Jiang argues the Sabine women stopping the war is implausible and functions as a founding myth that makes victims authorize Rome.
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The First Temple period is framed as 1010 BCE to 586 BCE, centered on David's coalition and the first temple in Jerusalem.
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Jiang presents David as the remembered founder of the state of Israel and of the Jewish faith at the end of the Bible's conventional chronology.
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"Then it was that the Sabine women whose wrongs had led to the war, throwing off all womanish fears in their distress, went boldly..."
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"The armies and their leaders were alike moved by this appeal. There was a sudden hush and silence. Then the generals advanced to arrange..."
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"Okay, so this couldn't possibly happen, right? So, these women are abducted, the fathers try to rescue them, and then the women say, hey,..."
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"Okay, good morning. So, let us do an overview of the history of the ancient Israelites, okay? From about 1010, the year 1010 BCE,..."
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"promised land and over the span of years they basically massacre the people and they create the nation of israel and then we enter..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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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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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central argument: the Hebrew Bible becomes world-shaping not because it records early history, but because David's political project finds a poet-god, a poet-king, and a Yahwist whose few...
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