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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
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "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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diagnosis
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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