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The brief preface quotes Shakespeare ’ s Shylock: “ If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his suffrance be by Christian example?
Why, revenge.
The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction .” This lays the moral ground for the resistance of the band of New Zealand natives under their leader Te Kooti, who synthesized a new religion from Christian and Māori traditions combined with his study of the Old Testament.
His unique contribution was to declare his followers the latter-day embodiment of the Israelites escaping from Egypt.
In the novel the rebels are often simply referred to as “ the Jews .” The religion Te Kooti created, the Ringatu Church, still claims around 15, 000 adherents in New Zealand today.
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