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12 timestamped hits 7 source readings 3 extracted notes Newest source: 2026-06-18, day precision Aliases: old-testaments

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Old Testament

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "What is the parchment old and new?"

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "What is the parchment old and new?"

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Faith Makes Truth Real And Hope Risks Exile (2026-06-18, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Faith Makes Truth Real And Hope Risks Exile; Greater Israel Needs America To Bleed In Iran; When The Mirage Breaks And War Stops Wanting Victory.

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Key Notes

Student interpretation voiced on 2026-06-18.

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A student suggests the passage alludes to multiple older divine names in scripture, which supports Jiang's emphasis on instability in naming God.

Interpretive theological claim stated on 2026-06-18.

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Jiang treats the Noah story as the paradigmatic case where God says afterward that destroying the world was a mistake and promises not to do it again.

Timestamped Evidence

Islam As Proto-Modernity

2025-03-11, day precision · Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam

Transcript

"...Okay? And Abraham came before the Bible. It came before the Old Testament and the New Testament. You argue about things you know, but..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Faith Makes Truth Real And Hope Risks Exile

2026-06-18, day precision · claims, semantic-ref, alias-match

Reading

The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...

David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture

2024-12-05, day precision · alias-match

Reading

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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