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When challenged by a student, Jiang says he is open to hearing commentators' views if they are presented concretely, but he remains confident that his own interpretation carries more weight.
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Argument
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "honest here i think the only thing that dante scholars can agree on is that they they have the best definition and best understanding..."
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A student textualist argues that the Italian points toward 'argument' rather than 'evidence', which would materially change how the passage on faith should be understood.
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Jiang accepts the classroom move from 'evidence' toward 'argument' and says faith itself is the only evidence available for the unseen.
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The wedding-dispute story teaches followers to win through argument and learning by exposing contradictions in sacred law.
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Abraham's bargaining with Yahweh makes divine-human friendship depend on honest argument rather than passive obedience.
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Jiang's First Temple Yahweh is a fallible, sensitive poet God whose friendship with David makes Israel possible and whose worship requires argument and growth.
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Faith and love of God require arguing with God, because only argument allows a fallible God to learn and grow.
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"honest here i think the only thing that dante scholars can agree on is that they they have the best definition and best understanding..."
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"...and then tell us what they write and i have an argument okay i'm probably open to that just tell us like this study..."
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"...uh take evidence away and and uh change it to the argument so it's not it's on it's on line 76 yeah credenza so..."
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"...text it is argumenty it never used evidence so it is argument so wait sorry sorry okay so so okay"
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"...faith faith is the only evidence no I think the only argument I think the"
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"...word argumenty is the perfect word because it is just an argument it is just a you know a perception it doesn't it you..."
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"that's the idea okay there is no evidence okay beyond faith you have to believe it exists otherwise it doesn't exist that's it there's..."
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"All right, can you read, Alan? It is a custom during the Jewish wedding that a distinguished person sit by the groom. I wanted..."
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"...If you want to win the world, you do so through argument, through learning, by showing the stupidity of people. And this is very..."
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"in the 19th century in Warsaw, all the top lawyers in Warsaw are Frankists, okay? Because Franks don't teach you how to think for..."
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"sweep away the righteous with the wicked suppose there are 50 righteous within the city will you then sweep away the place not forgive..."
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"suppose five of our 50 are lacking there's only 45 we can't find 50. don't you think we should still forgive some some gamara..."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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A source-grounded reading of Literary Genesis: Israel begins as a political coalition, David needs legitimacy, and the Bible becomes the technology that turns propaganda into living memory.
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A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...
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