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Jiang's metaphor for the Bible as scarce symbolic territory whose occupants receive legitimacy and power.
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Political real estate
Jiang's metaphor for the Bible as scarce symbolic territory whose occupants receive legitimacy and power.
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Jiang calls the Bible the most valuable political real estate in the world because inclusion in it grants legitimacy, power, and eventual influence over human history.
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"...The second more important reason is because the Bible is political real estate. And I want you to remember this idea. Okay? This is..."
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"...a very important idea. The Bible is the most valuable political real estate in the world. Everyone wants to be in there. And what..."
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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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