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He says the written apology preserved David's historical legacy so that, once witnesses to Uriah and Bathsheba were dead, truth would become whatever had been written down.
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He says the written apology preserved David's historical legacy so that, once witnesses to Uriah and Bathsheba were dead, truth would become whatever had been written down.
"...was for internal consumption and this was to basically preserve David's historical legacy so maybe 20 years from now when everyone's dead when people..."
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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