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Hindsight suggests that Jewish cultural nationalism had to be split from political nationalism under Roman rule: pre-70 CE Judaism was too powerful a political force in the empire to be tolerated indefinitely as an expansionist nationalist religion. The Roman empire was too fragmented and volatile to tolerate in its midst a separate national-religious culture exempt from emperor worship and sufficiently strong and attractive to threaten Hellenistic imperial culture and the political power of Rome. Judaism in the Roman empire could survive in the end only as a non-expansionist defeated religion, not as an open challenge to Rome.
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Aberbach, M., Aberbach, D. (2000). Conclusion: Defeat and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism. In: The Roman-Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596054_16
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