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Those who explain Jewish catastrophe as the consequence of covenant-breaking and demand purity before God.
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prophets
Those who explain Jewish catastrophe as the consequence of covenant-breaking and demand purity before God.
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Jiang claims poets are really prophets because they have a divine connection to the universe.
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Jiang provocatively recasts Jesus and Zarathustra as poets rather than religious figures.
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Jiang says poets often do not know they are prophets or connected to the monad/divine; prophecy happens through them before they consciously understand it.
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Prophets are defined as people who bring the truth of the universe into the world and construct it in language that allows others to access that truth eternally.
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In Homer's historical moment, poets, prophets, and teachers perform the same function: accessing universal truth and spreading it through words that construct civilization.
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Jiang treats poor prophets as divinely inspired carriers of a shared truth, so Rumi can illuminate Zarathustra across centuries.
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The prophetic tradition explains conquest and exile as punishment for breaking covenant with Yahweh.
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Jiang contrasts beliefs that God wrote every biblical word or inspired prophets with his own stated literary interpretation of the Bible.
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"...So, a poet is unique in the world. Poets are really prophets. Okay? So, if you look at all these great religious figures of..."
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"...of their own soul. Okay? So poets don't actually know their prophet. Poets don't know they're connected to the monad or the divine. They..."
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"...what he does. A word we have for these people are prophets. Right? What are prophets? Prophets are those who bring the truth of..."
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"Okay? Where you're accessing the truth of the universe and you're spreading this truth through words that enable the construction of civilization. And we..."
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"...I want to make with you today is that all poor prophets are the same. They're all divinely inspired. They're all speaking a certain..."
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"...a people. And the people who argue this are called the prophets, okay? So after the first temple period, beginning of the second temple..."
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"Also, what's important is, they need to, if they are to survive as a people, they need to explain why this is happening to..."
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"...of God. And so in the Bible there are people called prophets. Prophets. And how prophets work is they visit heaven or they visit..."
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"...whoever wrote the Bible was inspired by God. That these are prophets who were inspired by God to write down the truths of God...."
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"of different works, by many different authors so there's no worldview or consistency or continuity in the Bible you can find whatever you want..."
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"...tradition. For example, the Ten Commandments. Second is N, which means prophets. And the prophets themselves are divided into minor and major. So in..."
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"...writings. So basically, things that don't really belong in teachings and prophets, but which have some cultural or religious significance to the Jewish people...."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...
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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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