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A student compares the dilemma to Inferno's hierarchy and argues that killing the daughter or kin would place Jephthah farther from God than merely breaking the promise.
Jiang sharpens the issue by asking whether treachery or violence is what makes kin-killing worse than breaking a vow to God.
"...think that in infernal if you uh commit like treachery against kin that's not just you know murder and that's that that doesn't mean..."
"why why would treachery be worse than breaking a vow to god i think it's like the violence of it"
"all and also because they are like your own flesh and blood so you know that would be kind of gruesome"
"...but it is true he prevails he promised to grace his kin and will make them啬 uh understanding okay but at the same time..."
"...think that in infernal if you uh commit like treachery against kin that's not just you know murder and that's that that doesn't mean..."
"Fair and foul are near of kin. And fair needs foul, I cried. My friends are gone, but that's a truth. Nor grave nor..."
"...outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish kin. For there were those who said, With our sons and our daughters,..."
"...sold to other nations, but now you are selling your own kin, who must then be brought back by us. They were silent and..."
A source-grounded reading of Dante's Paradise as a school for intuition: heaven is not a ranked hotel but a measure of receptivity, vows test free will beyond institutional obedience, memory may belong to the...
The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's claim that Jewish identity is not treated here as simple continuity from ancient Israel, but as a Persian imperial construction: a Bible-shaped, temple-centered, purity-bound people made to stabilize and...
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