Jiang's term for Jewish belief meshing with Arab pagan belief in Arabia.
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syncretization
Jiang's term for Jewish belief meshing with Arab pagan belief in Arabia.
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Bringing different religions together to create a new religion.
Jewish messianic belief, meshed with Arab pagan belief in Arabia, is presented as a foundation for the modern belief of Islam.
Post-Bronze-Age Canaan is described as chaotic and multiethnic, requiring the Bible to create cohesion from Bedouins, hill people, city refugees, Egyptian priests, mercenaries, and sea peoples.
Syncretization is modeled as a post-conquest social technology: conquerors and conquered peoples marry gods to each other so they can share a culture after violence.
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"...And in this action, in this interaction, there's a process of syncretization, where Jewish belief was being meshed into Arab pagan belief. But as..."
"...there's a concept we learned that's very important in class called syncretization. Right? Syncretization. It means when you bring different religions together and create..."
"And so his search has ended, and Biblical history has ended. Okay? So this is a radical new idea in human history, how a..."
"And I conquer you and I make you part of my people. Okay? So what we do in this instance is we marry our..."
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