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Jiang says the first task of David's apology is to show David loved Saul, was not ambitious, and cared only for the well-being of his king.
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Apology OF David
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Saul is the king that everyone picked or elected and he was a good king. He was good at war. He was someone that..."
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The entire apology of David is described as focused on proving David's lack of ambition.
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The lecture closes by saying the Hebrew Bible begins as an apology for David but evolves into a much larger mythology.
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"Saul is the king that everyone picked or elected and he was a good king. He was good at war. He was someone that..."
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"...that David is not all ambitious. In fact the entire apology of David is focused on the lack of ambition of David. Okay? So..."
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"or how would they know this story okay so the idea is this first of all this was written for the elite for the..."
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"...so powerful. Okay? So, last class, we talked about the apology of David, about the Bathsheba story, about the Abner story. And we believe..."
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"...last thing I want to talk about today is the apology of David which is the beginning of the Bible. Okay. So when kings..."
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"...David and well the answer is most didn't believe the apology of David okay most were very clear about David's ambitions but when you're..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central argument: the Hebrew Bible becomes world-shaping not because it records early history, but because David's political project finds a poet-god, a poet-king, and a Yahwist whose few...
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The Bible begins, in this lecture's argument, as political spin for David: a library of collective imagination that turns usurpation, murder, and fear of rivals into legitimacy, identity, and eventually literature.
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