What If Israel Had Never Fallen? A 2,000-Year Thought Experiment
What if the land of Israel had never been conquered — no Rome, no diaspora, no Crusaders, no Ottomans? Inspired by the Korean drama The King: Eternal Monarch, this episode takes Hannah's counterfactual seriously. We dig into the real scholarship behind "what if" Jewish history, the office of Nasi and the Great Sanhedrin as an actual Davidic dynasty with judicial power, the four-room Israelite house and what its floor plan says about egalitarianism, and the sharpest question of all: is antisemitism ancient and permanent, or mostly a product of Jews living as a minority inside someone else's…
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