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He reads Theogony as layered political memory: animistic creation, succession rebellion, and the recurring story of a low-born or foreign general who overthrows a ruler.
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Usurpation
He reads Theogony as layered political memory: animistic creation, succession rebellion, and the recurring story of a low-born or foreign general who overthrows a ruler.
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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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"But before you can imagine that they were interesting. But the bureaucrats took them and changed them into boring stories that they can now..."
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"Rhea the mother is upset about this so she decides I'm gonna give birth to Zeus in secret. So, she runs off to an..."
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"Okay. So, going back we're seeing three layers. Right? So, the first layer is the original layer which is the animistic layer. Okay? So,..."
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"The third idea is the Inead remember it's anti -Greek. The problem for Rome at that time was Greek culture was vastly superior to..."
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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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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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