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Because most people could not read or write, Jiang argues the written Bible itself mattered less than priestly oral explanation of it.
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Because most people could not read or write, Jiang argues the written Bible itself mattered less than priestly oral explanation of it.
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"The way they did it was very interesting. All they did was just put them together. Okay? You understand? So if you read the..."
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"So the Bible itself didn't really matter. What mattered was the oral explanation of the Bible controlled by the priest class. Does that make..."
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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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