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Jiang says ancient identity was loose and fluid, so Israel is a literary creation and Israelite identity is a political creation rather than a fixed ethnic or racial identity.
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Jiang says ancient identity was loose and fluid, so Israel is a literary creation and Israelite identity is a political creation rather than a fixed ethnic or racial identity.
"...it's a literary creation. The idea of Israelite, it is a political creation. Does that make sense? Guys? Any questions so far before I..."
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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