The Post-Colonial Perspective in the Hebrew Bible

There's a sense in which it's pro-monarchy in the Hebrew Bible and then there's this voice that's critiquing monarchy. So here's one of the things that we would see in the book of Jeremiah. It's a fairly sanguine approach that says, look, the Babylonians are coming. And by submitting and live was not to stay in Jerusalem, but to be deported to Babylon.