Glossary
David's legitimacy type: a ruler authorized by poetry, song, and sensitivity instead of military or priestly office.
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poet-king
David's legitimacy type: a ruler authorized by poetry, song, and sensitivity instead of military or priestly office.
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Glossary
The mainstream image of David as a prayerful, self-reflective ruler whose apparent moral exposure proves sincerity.
model
David's usurpation creates a legitimacy problem that the Bible solves by presenting him as the first poet-king rather than a warrior-king or priest-king.
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Jiang says the mainstream scholarly reading treats the Bathsheba story as true because it puts David in a bad light, making David look honest, self-reflective, prayerful, and morally wrestling.
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"...we discussed last class is the Bible presents him as a poet King okay This is a very important concept, poet -king. There have..."
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"...being honest right so the mainstream understanding is David is a poet king he's a man who prays constantly and engages in a process..."
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"...must be true and therefore it shows us David is a poet king who is constantly thinking about his own moral failings and so..."
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"...with one history. Okay? And legitimacy is that David is a poet king, which is just like Yahweh. Okay? That's why Yahweh favors him...."
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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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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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