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A political story sponsored to justify a ruler's questionable path to power as necessary, divinely willed, and non-ambitious.
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Apology
A political story sponsored to justify a ruler's questionable path to power as necessary, divinely willed, and non-ambitious.
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Acts is very pro-Paul and should be read as a story by people trying to clean up Paul's image.
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He defines an apology as the writing kings sponsor after violent or nefarious accessions to explain that their rule was divinely willed, necessary, and not ambitious.
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Jiang says the cave story in which David spares Saul cannot be true historically; its function is to show David was loyal, loving, and not ambitious.
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The Bathsheba affair is presented as a later disguise that converts a political murder into a story about lust, weakness, and David being a man rather than God.
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In response to why people believed the apology, Jiang says many did not, but a king imposes reality on others and the story is aimed at coalition members who want to believe David.
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Jiang says the apology was written for elites around David, not for the illiterate public, so they would know what story to tell people.
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"And Paul might still be alive at this time. What we also know is this Acts of the Apostles is very pro -Paul. So..."
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"Remember, the Bible started out as an apology for King David. So this is extremely sympathetic towards Paul. And again, what we're showing you..."
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"...create legitimacy for David. Okay? This is what we call an apology."
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"...most kings resolve this issue is by sponsoring writings or an apology to explain why he or she is king. And the answer usually..."
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"...that make sense? So the Bible was created first as an apology for David. And explains why the house of David is now in..."
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"Okay? Trying to kill David and his followers. One one day Saul is alone in a cave praying to God for deliverance. David sees..."
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"...us that David is not all ambitious. In fact the entire apology of David is focused on the lack of ambition of David. Okay?..."
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"killed in other words this Bathsheba thing must have come later to disguise the fact that David killed Uriah because he feared Uriah's popularity..."
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"...question okay so the question is why would people believe this apology of of David and well the answer is most didn't believe the..."
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"...continue the Hebrew Bible okay because it starts off as an apology for David but it evolves into a much larger mythology right so..."
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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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