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4 timestamped hits 2 source readings 4 extracted notes Aliases: poet-gods

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poet-god

Yahweh as a creator whose speech makes and revises the world, making divinity literary.

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poet-god

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Yahweh as a creator whose speech makes and revises the world, making divinity literary.

Jiang's interpretation as of 2024-12-12.

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Jiang's First Temple Yahweh is a fallible, sensitive poet God whose friendship with David makes Israel possible and whose worship requires argument and growth.

Interpretive claim in the 2024-12-10 lecture.

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Yahweh is presented as a poet-god who creates through speech, edits creation by judgment, and creates Adam and Eve because he is lonely.

Radical theological interpretation in the 2024-12-10 lecture.

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Jiang argues God is fallible: Yahweh is an inexperienced poet-god and new father whose mistakes allow both God and humans to grow.

Timestamped Evidence

Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire

2024-12-12, day precision · Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah

Transcript

"...remember that in the Yahweh's understanding of Yahweh, Yahweh is a poet God. He's fallible, he's sensitive, but he means good. He's willing to..."

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Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire

2024-12-12, day precision · claims

Reading

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The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology

2024-12-10, day precision · glossary, claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central argument: the Hebrew Bible becomes world-shaping not because it records early history, but because David's political project finds a poet-god, a poet-king, and a Yahwist whose few...

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