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Persia and the Bible

The Ancients

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The History of Purim in Babylonia

In 70 AD the destruction of the second temple in Israel in Jerusalem means for the second time God is displaced and that ritual goes with it so all those animal sacrifices are gave coagency to what the Jews were. Meanwhile we see in Babylonia the Jews are also working in their own way to maintain uphold and create another kind of Jewish identity. The two don't necessarily overlap but ultimately after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem this new world where scripture these holy stories have been told for generations become the chief articulation of faith cultural identity.

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