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Jiang says two questions especially trouble Dante in the coming reading: why Jesus had to die and why God had to destroy the Temple.
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Jiang intensifies Pike's imagery by translating society from a living forest into an eternal stone temple, arguing that geometric perfection becomes the model for a man-made divine order.
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In Jiang's reading, the Masonic end state is anthropological and political at once: each person must become a stoic, perfected stone so that all humanity can be assembled into the temple of God and effectively create God on earth.
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Jiang interprets Mesopotamian temple immunity as an equilibrium rule: war is allowed, but temple wealth cannot be touched, so expansion is constrained.
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Conflict over temple rebuilding between returnees and locals is useful to Persia because it fits divide-and-rule strategy.
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The conflict over who may build the temple is, for Jiang, part of Persian imperial strategy: divide and rule.
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Opposition to the temple continues because the Babylonian returnees insist only they are real Israelites while locals want shared participation.
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In Jiang’s account, agriculture originally grows around religious settlements and temples rather than from a purely material or economic motive.
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"...second is why did um um god have to destroy the temple okay all right uh can"
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"...burn down. What we really want to do is create a temple of stone that is perfect, that is eternal, that is divine, okay?..."
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"It was called the perfect number, and the cube became a symbol of perfection, okay? So this is God. What we're trying to do..."
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"...together and we're all stones, then we can create the perfect temple of God. We can create God on Earth. So imagine a pyramid,..."
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"...to war against each other, but we cannot destroy each other's temple. Why?"
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"Because the temple is the house of your patron god. If you kill the patron god, then the god will be very angry and..."
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"...back to Jerusalem, but he also finances the rebuilding of the temple, okay? But when this happens, when they go back, and try to..."
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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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"Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and they made them afraid to build, and they bribed officials to frustrate..."
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"Okay, so they try to build the temple, but it doesn't really work out because there's so much opposition, right? The Jews who've come..."
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"...we discussed before people came together for religious purposes. They built temples. And now you have to maintain the temples therefore you build farms..."
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"...we discussed before, people come together to practice their religion, building temples, building monuments. And then slowly, around these temples, you have 전통교회, the..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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