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Jiang frames his Bible lectures as controversial even against mainstream academic understanding, and asks students to doubt his authority and challenge him.
"make arguments in this class that go against not only the traditional understanding of the Bible, but also the mainstream academic understanding of the..."
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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