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The Ottoman devshirme parallel
Nehemiah may have been among Judean boys taken young to serve the Persian court, like the Ottoman system that recruited Christian boys from the Balkans.
Empires harvested talent from subjects.
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Eunuchs, unable to have heirs, often sought to make names for themselves through their careers.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 191
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