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Internal consumption

A political text written for elites inside the regime so they know what story to preserve and repeat.

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Internal consumption

Glossary

A political text written for elites inside the regime so they know what story to preserve and repeat.

Interpretive claim about the function of early writing stated on 2024-12-05.

model

Jiang says the apology was written for elites around David, not for the illiterate public, so they would know what story to tell people.

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David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture

2024-12-05, day precision · glossary, claims

Reading

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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