The Bathsheba affair is presented as a later disguise that converts a political murder into a story about lust, weakness, and David being a man rather than God.
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The Bathsheba affair is presented as a later disguise that converts a political murder into a story about lust, weakness, and David being a man rather than God.
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"killed in other words this Bathsheba thing must have come later to disguise the fact that David killed Uriah because he feared Uriah's popularity..."
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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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