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The post-500 BCE shift in which priests, not kings, become the central authority speaking for Yahweh.
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Priestly authority
The post-500 BCE shift in which priests, not kings, become the central authority speaking for Yahweh.
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"But after the Persian... but after the Persian Empire returns them to Judaism, they became a monotheistic religion, or the beginnings of a monotheistic..."
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"There are kings, but the kings are not subservient to the priests who speak on behalf of Yahweh, okay? Because now it's a monotheistic..."
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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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