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The Bible as the mythic memory through which Israelites explain who they are and why David's house rules.
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Collective memory
The Bible as the mythic memory through which Israelites explain who they are and why David's house rules.
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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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"...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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"...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 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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