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The powerful literary form that emerges when a ruler's self-justification raises questions of power, humanity, God, emotion, and morality.
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Leadership literature
The powerful literary form that emerges when a ruler's self-justification raises questions of power, humanity, God, emotion, and morality.
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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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"...working so hard to disguise his ruthlessness he's creating very powerful leadership literature he created a very powerful story that has captured the imagination..."
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"...your own personal and emotional and moral life we call this literature right so guys it's no coincidence that today the Jewish people are..."
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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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