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Locals who identify as Israelites ask to build with the returnees, but the returnees exclude them as false Israelites.
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Temple rebuilding
Locals who identify as Israelites ask to build with the returnees, but the returnees exclude them as false Israelites.
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"When the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel, they..."
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"Okay, so they're saying, we're Israelites just as you guys, okay? We stayed, but you guys left. So, actually, we're better than you are,..."
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"And we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of King Esarhaddon of Assyria, who brought us here. But Zerubbabel, Jerusha, Jeshua,..."
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"This is really weird, right? You're all Israelites. Why? Why is it that? No, we are the true Israelites you guys are the false..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's claim that Jewish identity is not treated here as simple continuity from ancient Israel, but as a Persian imperial construction: a Bible-shaped, temple-centered, purity-bound people made to stabilize and...
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