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Jiang defines the Tanakh as the Hebrew Bible and divides it into Torah or teachings, prophets, and writings, with prophets treated as social critics who challenge kings in the name of God.
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Jiang defines the Tanakh as the Hebrew Bible and divides it into Torah or teachings, prophets, and writings, with prophets treated as social critics who challenge kings in the name 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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"...is the Hebrew term for certain ideas. The T stands for Torah or teachings. So this is the laws of the Jewish tradition. For..."
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"And the third RK is writings. So basically, things that don't really belong in teachings and prophets, but which have some cultural or religious..."
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"...religiosity so far as I know, or conservative reception of the Torah any more than it was of a socialist idealism of the left..."
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"...The Law of Moses, over time, will be divided into the Torah, which is the written law, and the Talmud, which is the oral..."
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"...of the book, why do you argue about Abraham when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him? Why do you..."
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"...our status as a chosen people, okay? Let us make our Torah and Jerusalem divine in the eyes of the world. And guess what?..."
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"...first is what's called the Tanakh sorry it's like it's a Torah okay so it's the first five books of the Bible okay second..."
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"...the Jews. Okay? Why do you argue about Abraham when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him? Will you not..."
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"...from the Bible. And that's why the old tradition called the Torah is actually much more important. Okay? And so Jews have to go..."
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"...are people today who memorize the Koran and who memorize the Torah. It takes some time, but you're able to do that. So back..."
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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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