Glossary
The official historian of David's court, associated here with good but non-literary propaganda and spin.
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Court historian
The official historian of David's court, associated here with good but non-literary propaganda and spin.
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The Yahwist or J writer is presented as a court historian whose job is to clean David's image by retelling his story.
diagnosis
Jiang contrasts the non-literary court historian with the Yahwist, whom he calls an exceptional literary genius comparable in stature to Homer, Plato, and Dante.
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"...the way it was so this is written um by the court historian okay the person who wrote genesis is the is a person..."
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"the story of david again but in a much more clean way that absorbs him of any crimes okay so so um where we..."
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"...the person who wrote those stories are what we call the court historian. We have absolutely no idea who he is. He's basically the..."
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"Okay? They're just propaganda and spin. But the person who wrote the Bible, especially Genesis, was a unique literary genius of the statue of..."
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"...Rome versus the Jews. It's a book by Barry Strauss, a historian, and it goes on about the three wars that the Jews fought..."
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"...overproduction. Okay? Elite overproduction. This is a term coined by the historian Peter Turchin. Okay? And his theory is that you have turmoil, you..."
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"...the Russian Revolution by Richard Spence. And Richard Spence is a historian and he had lots of documentation where Wall Street is actually financing..."
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"...okay and this was actually first proposed by a muslim scholar historian named ibn kudan okay and he proposed the idea of abasaya and..."
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"...parallel that we have is the Battle of Marathon. But some historians suggest, okay, so even historians disagree whether or not the Battle of..."
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"...Okay? Now, you would think the answer is, you just ask historians whether it's true or not, and you know the answer. The problem..."
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"...how can we explain why Hannibal did what he did? Roman historians will tell you, oh, it's because his father lost against Rome. He..."
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"...Polybius was a hostage of Rome, and he became the official historian of the Roman Empire. So, this is a guy who invented the..."
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A source-grounded reading of Literary Genesis: Israel begins as a political coalition, David needs legitimacy, and the Bible becomes the technology that turns propaganda into living memory.
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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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