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Nathan's parable reframes David's crime from murder to adultery/theft, which Jiang calls gaslighting because it makes readers forget Uriah's killing.
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Nathan
Nathan's parable reframes David's crime from murder to adultery/theft, which Jiang calls gaslighting because it makes readers forget Uriah's killing.
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The Bathsheba story says David sends instructions to Joab that lead to Uriah's death, then marries Bathsheba and is confronted by Nathan's parable of the rich shepherd stealing from the poor shepherd.
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"...your crime is you are that rich man okay so what Nathan is saying to David is your crime is you stole Bathsheba guys..."
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"...together at this point David is visited by a prophet named Nathan and Nathan says to David I want to ask you a question..."
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"...be so unrighteous as to steal another man's sheep and then Nathan says you David are the rich shepherd you have violated God's law..."
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"...because he's king. But God finds out and sends the prophet Nathan to tell David, you've sinned. And at first, David refuses to admit..."
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"Nathan the Prophet goes David and says tells him a story there are two men in a city and one is rich and the..."
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A source-grounded reading of Literary Genesis: Israel begins as a political coalition, David needs legitimacy, and the Bible becomes the technology that turns propaganda into living memory.
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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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