Jiang says ancient identity was loose and fluid, so Israel is a literary creation and Israelite identity is a political creation rather than a fixed ethnic or racial identity.
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Literary Creation
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"...nonexistent. Okay? So Israel, the very idea of Israel, it's a literary creation. The idea of Israelite, it is a political creation. Does that..."
"...opposite Of the relationship between Virgil And Dido Okay? Both are literary creations The difference is that Dante Put Beatrice into paradise Whereas Virgil..."
"...us to understand otherwise you cannot understand the Bible and other literary creations. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to give..."
"...who is Dido who is Dido really well if she's a literary creation of Virgil's I can guess we can surmise that Dido must..."
"...because the Jewish faith is the first faith to focus on literary creation. So that's the idea of legitimacy. Cohesion. There's a lot of..."
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