here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
So what is going on?<\/p>\n
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Let\u2019s assume, for purposes of discussion, what I actually believe to be the case\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/em>that the Book of Mormon recounts true history, and that Jacob was a real, historical person.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Remember that the Jewish leadership\u00a0of Jerusalem had, by their incompetent and even evil leadership, brought destruction upon the city from which Jacob\u2019s family came. and that \u201cthe Jews\u201d there had sought to murder Jacob\u2019s father. \u00a0Jacob had, no doubt, been raised on and surrounded by passionate opposition to the leadership, ethos, and culture of late pre-exilic Judah, and he himself had been raised in exile, deprived of the wealth, status, and comfort that would otherwise have been his.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s scarcely any wonder that Jacob has no warm feelings toward \u201cthe Jews\u201d at Jerusalem, and even that he\u2019s inclined to hyperbolic statements about their being the most evil people on the planet.<\/p>\n
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