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Jiang says the Israelites who founded the religion are very different from the people called Jews today, because the tradition changed so drastically that continuity is misleading.
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Jiang says the Israelites who founded the religion are very different from the people called Jews today, because the tradition changed so drastically that continuity is misleading.
Jiang concludes that for most of human history humans were like this and that some cultures still preserve this religious orientation.
"myth that I will correct is that Jewish history, or the Jewish religion, has been continuous for at least 3,000 years, possibly 4,000 years...."
"It means we have to be artistic because we have to celebrate and worship the spirit world. Does that make sense? So again, for..."
"...carry this plan out to fruition, you need a pretty stable continuity of agenda. Right. So it's entirely possible that if Trump leaves office..."
"...draft, all right? Second thing that you need is something called continuity of agenda. What does this mean? It means, like, now that you..."
"...by many different authors so there's no worldview or consistency or continuity in the Bible you can find whatever you want in the Bible..."
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.
For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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