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Tel Aviv reads David as an imperial, cosmopolitan, creative king, while Jerusalem reads David as the repentant poet-prophet whose sin leads to redemption.
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Tel Aviv reads David as an imperial, cosmopolitan, creative king, while Jerusalem reads David as the repentant poet-prophet whose sin leads to redemption.
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David's three political problems are legitimacy, unity, and differentiation; Jiang says Yahweh, Jerusalem temple centralization, and biblical mythology answer those problems.
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The David story in the Bible is propaganda: Jiang reconstructs David as a popular mercenary who likely killed Saul and then needed a sacred story to legitimize his rule.
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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.
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Joab killing Abner without punishment is, for Jiang, evidence that David likely ordered or permitted the killing.
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David's likely motive toward Uriah is fear and rivalry, not merely desire for Bathsheba.
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Genesis helps legitimate David by making Yahweh and David alike: both are fallible figures who can admit mistakes, reflect, and improve.
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Nathan's parable reframes David's crime from murder to adultery/theft, which Jiang calls gaslighting because it makes readers forget Uriah's killing.
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"...at where they disagree. Okay? So Israel is the kingdom of David, but Tel Aviv and Jerusalem perceive David differently. Okay? So for people..."
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"They see David as primarily a poet prophet, and they see David as the exemplar, as the favorite of God, because he redeemed himself..."
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"...And God forgives him. And in this process, not only does David become a better person, but he becomes united with God, because now..."
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"...is the first king of Israel he has a mercenary named David and remember what's very common in history is for mercenaries to rebel..."
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"big problem that David faces is one of legitimacy second is the problem of unity because remember Israel at this time it's a diverse..."
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"...he will live from now on and by doing this what David's really doing is centralizing the religion when you do that you give..."
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"...yourself okay all right okay so now we go on to David okay the story of David it's very very um complicated okay so..."
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"...all propaganda okay what really happened is that saul is king david is the mercenary and he's a very good and popular mercenary he..."
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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 first problem is that job the general is rebelling against david right if you're david who who are you more afraid of are..."
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"...eliminated because he's dangerous okay and it makes sense because remember david betrayed saul so he's afraid that others will betray him as well..."
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"...what's really important to know is that even though Job disobeyed David and killed Abner, Job was never punished, okay? Okay, which tells us..."
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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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