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Political allegiance in the early Levant is treated as tactical and shifting, not nationalist or stable.
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Fluid alliances
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Jiang characterizes David as an ambitious, charismatic soldier whose alliances were fluid and self-interested rather than fixed by national loyalty.
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"...and I know it's a hard concept, okay, but borders and alliances and allegiances are extremely fluid at this time. If it benefits me,..."
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"So these alliances are always shifting, okay? So David goes off and fights for the Philistines. King Saul and his sons are eventually killed..."
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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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