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David's usurpation creates a legitimacy problem that the Bible solves by presenting him as the first poet-king rather than a warrior-king or priest-king.
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David's usurpation creates a legitimacy problem that the Bible solves by presenting him as the first poet-king rather than a warrior-king or priest-king.
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The aggressive Philistine presence forced diverse Levantine groups to form a military alliance and elect Saul as king; David appears first as one of Saul's mercenaries.
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David's legitimacy problem is that he stole Saul's throne; by creating that precedent, he empowered others to imagine stealing the throne from him.
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Jiang says the first task of David's apology is to show David loved Saul, was not ambitious, and cared only for the well-being of his king.
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Jiang says the cave story in which David spares Saul cannot be true historically; its function is to show David was loyal, loving, and not ambitious.
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"...that's the case so legitimacy remember David usurped the throne from Saul Saul came from a noble family and he was elected by the..."
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"...them in war against the Philistines. And this person is named Saul, King Saul, all right? And King Saul is a very good king...."
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"...think he's legitimate. Why? Because he ruthlessly tried to usurp from Saul. Right?"
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"Saul is the king that everyone picked or elected and he was a good king. He was good at war. He was someone that..."
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"Okay? Trying to kill David and his followers. One one day Saul is alone in a cave praying to God for deliverance. David sees..."
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"...the first story. Let's look at the second story. Okay? So Saul is dead and his son who's a young man comes into the..."
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"Meanwhile, Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to..."
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"...fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? He asked. Who are you, Lord?..."
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"...unite them against the Philistines and they elect a king called Saul so Saul is the first king of Israel he has a mercenary..."
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"...david and goliath right but after he kills goliath the king saul becomes envious jealous of david and that forces david to run away..."
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"...class this is all propaganda okay what really happened is that saul is king david is the mercenary and he's a very good and..."
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"...okay so so um where we on the story is that saul is dead but saul's family is still around and saul's family has..."
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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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