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The three problems every king must solve: right to rule, shared peoplehood, and separation from prior cultures.
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Legitimacy, identity, differentiation
The three problems every king must solve: right to rule, shared peoplehood, and separation from prior cultures.
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"...create an identity that everyone accepts. Okay? The third thing is differentiation. You need not only for these people to get along but you..."
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"...king has to resolve all three issues. Okay? Legitimacy identity and differentiation. And that's what David is trying to do with the Bible. Okay...."
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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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