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Because the Bible has been redacted many times and contains multiple sources, Jiang says most people understand it through preachers rather than reading it in its entirety.
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Because the Bible has been redacted many times and contains multiple sources, Jiang says most people understand it through preachers rather than reading it in its entirety.
Because Rome destroyed Carthage and its books, Jiang says Carthage must be reconstructed from Greek and Roman testimony, archaeology, and Phoenician context.
"...explained to you last class there are at least four different sources in the Bible randomly. And it's been edited constantly over the centuries...."
"Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So, if we just do a compare and contrast, we could easily figure out, oh, it's the Roman..."
"the conflict started in about 300 BCE, the Romans and the Greeks had nice things to say about the Carthaginians. Okay? They were good..."
"same time, we've done a lot of archaeological excavations around Carthage and we have found human remains that show signs of human sacrifice. Okay?..."
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...
Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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