Conquered peoples would trade their defeated god for the victorious god of their conquerors and eventually there would be a cultural and religious assimilation, intermarriage.

胜利者所信仰的神,自然就取代了被征服民族的神,最终就产生了文化，宗教间的,同化和通婚现象。

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You see, in the previous empires, like the Assyrian Empire, or these kinds of-- the Egyptian Empire, when people conquered other peoples, often all they wanted was tribute.

之前的各个帝国，比如亚述帝国，或者埃及帝国-,当他们战胜其他民族时，往往只是觊觎贡品。

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Perhaps they were pushed out by the invading sea peoples.

也许是他们被来自海洋的入侵民族驱赶。

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Where other peoples have seen sameness and continuity, the Greeks and the heirs of their way of thinking, have tended to notice disjunctions and to make distinctions.

别的民族看事物的统一性和连续性,希腊人传承传统思想,看到的多是事物的不同点,进行比较

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What Alexander had wanted to do was to take all these different peoples, who spoke different languages and had different customs, and use a Greek layer to sort of unite his empire overall.

亚历山大的理想是，让所有说不同语言，不同习俗的民族，用一种希腊文化统一帝国。

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But they also serve another very important function, and that was the formation and maintenance of a differentiated ethnic identity or in Priestly parlance, the formation and maintenance of a holy peoples separated out from other nations by rules that mark her as God's people.

但是它们也有另外一个很重要的功能，这个功能形成并维护了,一个分化的种族身份，或者用神职人员的说法，这些规则促使了神圣民族的形成和保持,这个民族和其他的城邦区别开来，被标记为上帝的子民。

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And so a group if these sea peoples comes in and occupies this area They will be the Philistines, the area that is now the Gaza Strip And they found the five Philistine cities that you will hear about increasingly in the book of Judges: Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, Ashdod and Ekron.

这样一个部族，如果海上来的民族到达并占领此地,他们就是腓利士人，而这地区就是现在的加沙地带,他们发现了五座腓利士城市,你们在《士师记》中会经常听到这些名字：,加沙，阿什克伦，迦特，阿什杜德，以革伦。

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And archaeology supports this picture of merging of peoples, a picture of the merging of peoples, rather than conquest or even large-scale immigration, because the new settlements in this period show such continuity with the past, not a complete break, not the initiation of something radically new.

考古学肯定了民族的融合，多个民族相融合的图景，而不是征服或者是大规模的移民，因为这一时期新的定居表明,与过去的连续继承，而不是完全的断裂，不是完全的新的开始。

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