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Jiang says the Bible's composite structure is confusing because the Persian solution was to place factional documents together with little major editing or revision.
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Jiang says the Bible's composite structure is confusing because the Persian solution was to place factional documents together with little major editing or revision.
"The way they did it was very interesting. All they did was just put them together. Okay? You understand? So if you read the..."
"...on? Yep. Okay. Right, okay. Okay. So what happened during the Persian period, right? Okay. So at this point, the religion of Israel is..."
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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