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Jiang's account of scripture as a portable store of historical identity and destiny.
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collective memory
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...change human history forever. Because what the Bible is, it's a collective memory. And the Israelites were called people of the book."
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Glossary
The Bible as the mythic memory through which Israelites explain who they are and why David's house rules.
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The Bible is treated as collective memory that lets even non-blood descendants imagine themselves as Israelites and desire a return to Jerusalem.
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Jiang defines the Bible as mythology and collective memory of the Israelites, first created to explain, justify, and create legitimacy for David.
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"...change human history forever. Because what the Bible is, it's a collective memory. And the Israelites were called people of the book."
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"...Bible? The Bible is a collection of stories that became your collective memory. So it's entirely possible, with the Bible now, for people who..."
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"...the Bible. Okay? Because the Bible is the mythology. It's a collective memory of the Israelites. Okay? And so I'm going to discuss why..."
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"...You just realize, like, what is that about? Is it the collective memory in this story? Is it the collective memory in this story?..."
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"...And the third pillar is to use the Bible as the collective memory of the people, okay? So the Jews believe the Bible, what..."
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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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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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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