Politics · 14 · Hoshayahu
Empires educated subjects to obey
Persia's Cambyses filled Egyptian schools with 'sons of fine people and no sons of common men.' Assyria's Sargon sent officials to teach deportees fear of god and king.
The Bible educated a people to endure without a state.
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Sargon's program aimed to create submissive subjects. The Bible's program mobilized a people after the state was gone, in response to the very conquests empires like Assyria carried out.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 229–231
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