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Jiang's dynastic cycle moves from mother-goddess priestess and consort to hereditary elite, rebellious prince/warlord, foreign mercenary general, and new king.
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Jiang's dynastic cycle moves from mother-goddess priestess and consort to hereditary elite, rebellious prince/warlord, foreign mercenary general, and new king.
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Jiang characterizes David as an ambitious, charismatic soldier whose alliances were fluid and self-interested rather than fixed by national loyalty.
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"Okay? So there are lots of historical figures like that. Even in Chinese history you have quite a few historical figures like this as..."
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"...is that after the warlord dies his son relies on a mercenary as general. Mercenary is often a foreigner and of low birth. Mercenary..."
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"...these hill people, you have these nomads, you have these foreign mercenaries, and they're fighting for different reasons."
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"So these alliances are always shifting, okay? So David goes off and fights for the Philistines. King Saul and his sons are eventually killed..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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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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