Conquest and exile were events that normally would spell the end of a particular ethnic national group, particularly in antiquity.

一般情况下，一个种族群体的结局,不外乎就是征服其他民族或被其他民族征服，然后被流放，特别是在古代。

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They did manage to establish a kingdom in the land that was known in antiquity as Canaan around the year 1000.

约公元前1000年时他们确实在那片叫迦南的土地上,立了一个自己的王国。

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In other words, he hoped to revive in some way the spirit of the ancients of antiquity, but to modify it in the lights of his own experience.

换句话说，他希望能够,复兴远古先贤的精神，但加入,他个人的亲身经历。

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So what is this radical new idea that shaped a culture and enabled its survival into later antiquity and really right into the present day in some form?

到底什么观点造,造就了这种文化,并使犹太人在后来幸存下来呢？

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Antiquity or tradition alone is no justification yet at the same time he seems to recognize that changes in law even when the result : is improvement are dangerous. He writes "It is a bad thing to habituate people to reckless dissolution of laws.

作为借口，但同时,他似乎也体认到法律修改,就算结果是改善,仍是很危险的作法，他写到,“让人民习惯于鲁莽的法律,崩溃是不好的事。

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