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EI Weekly Listen - Robin Lane Fox on nationalism in the classical world

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Jews in the Sixties a D

The failure of diaspera jews to join in great jewish war of the sixties a d shows that jewish national consciousness was not, in fact, strong or nationalist. Major subsequent uprisings by jews in cyrene, cyprus and alexandria showed there was indeed scope for anti roman rebellion in the diaspera too. The hebrew prophets had one and only one point of reference, their people and their nation. Whereas the early greek poets had had several, of which their nation was not one.

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