Success in the diaspora depended on the ruling regimes being willing to ascribe to the rulers of the Jewish community a measure of autonomy so that, in effect, the ruling regime slotted in to take God's place in the politics of Israel's sons. Because Israel's sons' rulers never envisioned absolute political autonomy even under the most felicitous of circumstances, it was plausible to slip into a sort of local imperial system once the people lost their own sovereignty.
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