Glossary
The official historian of David's court, associated here with good but non-literary propaganda and spin.
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Court historian
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The war on Iran is the visible spark.
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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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"...something called elite overproduction, which is a phrase coined by a historian named Peter Turchin. And he argues that if you look at all..."
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"...the tool to make this transition happen so that so the historians will say you know it was it was this guy Donald Trump..."
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"...battle of Canaan didn't really exist. Okay. And there's this Roman historian who said this guy's clearly an idiot because we have so much..."
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"...is, in 1971, the Nixon shock. So, if you talk to historians, they'll give you lots and lots of different reasons as to why..."
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"...defeat the Soviet Union. That's not true. That is something that historians made up. The real reason is that in 1971, Nixon removed the..."
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"...always have different factions competing against each other for power. The historian Peter Turchin, he writes about this, he calls it elite overproduction. Over..."
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"...six million which and i don't you know i'm not a historian"
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"assassins and so this historian of jewish culture who actually was then working for the romans described this this thing that happened at masada..."
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