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Jiang repeats that if the Yahwist were not David's daughter or granddaughter, stories mocking Yahweh would not have entered the Bible.
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Canon
Jiang argues that civilization is not only about changing the past but also about eliminating most of the past, leaving later readers unable to know many original thinkers.
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Jiang argues that Plato's anti-democracy helped preserve his influence because kings ruled most of human history and found anti-democratic thought useful.
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Jiang argues that civilization is not only about changing the past but also about eliminating most of the past, leaving later readers unable to know many original thinkers.
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"The first is her economy. Economy just means using as few words as possible to express as much as possible. Okay? the story of..."
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"They're just not. But Plato, anyone can read Plato and enjoy Plato, okay? So his readability, the originality of his writing is one really..."
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"But we don't know who these people were. Because remember, citizenship, it's not really just about changing the past. It's also about eliminating most..."
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"...eschatology the name for Putin is Dao the Great King of canon which is the same concept as the Orthodox idea of the Catacombs..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central turn: Socrates attacks democracy by exposing the weakness of language and reason, then Plato rescues Socrates by turning the cave into a martyr story, a Christian universe,...
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