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Modern archaeological searches are said to have found no concrete evidence for Noah's Ark, Eden, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or Moses.
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Biblical History
The biblical covenant sequence moves from conditional covenants with Noah, Abraham, and Moses to the unconditional Davidic covenant, where Yahweh promises the house of David eternal rule.
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Jiang argues that before David nothing in the Bible has been proven historical, and the Bible's events do not connect cleanly as either chronology or pure fiction.
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The biblical covenant sequence moves from conditional covenants with Noah, Abraham, and Moses to the unconditional Davidic covenant, where Yahweh promises the house of David eternal rule.
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Jiang claims the Davidic covenant marks the end of biblical history because Yahweh's search for friendship ends in David.
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"creator of this world and that he is the one who this to be literally true okay but in the past 400 years 300..."
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"mean ten plagues is a travesty and a disaster on the Egyptian people no record of that the parting of the sea no record..."
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"He wants friendship. So, in other words, the Bible is fundamentally a story of friendship, of two poets who are alone in the world..."
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"...David. In other words, the Davidic covenant marks the end of Biblical history. Yahweh, this great God, poet God, who searched the universe for..."
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"And so his search has ended, and Biblical history has ended. Okay? So this is a radical new idea in human history, how a..."
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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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