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Jiang says writing was a new and expensive technology comparable to movie making today, usually requiring royal sponsorship and scribal teams to justify kingship.
"Okay? So remember, back at this point, the very idea of writing, it is new. It's a new technology. But it's also a very..."
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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