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Combining religions or worldviews, here Greek, Jewish, and Persian, into the basis of Western civilization and Christianity.
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syncretism
Combining religions or worldviews, here Greek, Jewish, and Persian, into the basis of Western civilization and Christianity.
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Jiang says the Hellenistic Age is defined by syncretism among Jews, Greeks, and Persians, producing the basis for Western civilization and Christianity.
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He says Greek, Jewish, and Persian worldviews merge in the Hellenistic empire and give rise to Christianity, which Rome will later amplify.
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"...the Greeks, and the Persians, come together in what we call syncretism. Syncretism just means a combining of religions to create the basis for..."
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"...Greek world and so now what you're seeing is a massive syncretism between all three major religions okay the Greeks the Jews and the..."
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"Jews are helping build this empire okay so this will merge worldviews and this will give us Christianity okay all right so that is..."
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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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