Jiang says the mainstream scholarly reading treats the Bathsheba story as true because it puts David in a bad light, making David look honest, self-reflective, prayerful, and morally wrestling.
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Jiang says the mainstream scholarly reading treats the Bathsheba story as true because it puts David in a bad light, making David look honest, self-reflective, prayerful, and morally wrestling.
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"media or American media I I know a lot of history to understand the media is is distorting reality okay but uh most people..."
"makes David great right he's constantly praying to God in fact the Bible just goes on endlessly about this how David is constantly in..."
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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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