I tried reading it in grad school (with an eye to figuring out whether or not to give it to teen relatives) and hated it. But maybe I was not yet old enough to enjoy reading young again at that point!

Good point!

And @ksetiya.bsky.social's Midlife #philosophybookgiftlist

Also on the list, Matt Strohl's *Why it is OK to Love Bad Movies*. #philosophybookgiftlist

Also on the list, Cowling and Cray's *Philosophy of Comics*.

Also on the list: @carriejenkins.bsky.social's *What Love is--and What it Could Be?*

Also on the list Conee and Sider's *Riddles of Existence*.

Also on the list: Carol Hay's *Think like a Feminist*.

Also on the list: @nickriggle.bsky.social's *On Being Awesome* and *This Beauty*.

A few years ago, I gave my then 14 year old nephew @aaronjames.bsky.social's *Assholes: A Theory*. So that is already on my list.

Presumably they took themselves to be gods as well!

And, more generally, is there more to this history of treating this passage as an instance of the Liar? Anything that might help connect it to al-Baghdadi, who, several centuries later, uses the Liar as a counterexample to the Manichaean position on agency?

My question: Is this view of agency something folks like Origen and Jerome develop elsewhere, or is this just a one-off interpretative move applied to this passage?

That is more or less exactly the view attributed to the Manichaeans by their early Islamic critics, like al-Nazzam: every created agent is either of the light, and so always tells the truth, or of the dark, and so always lies. #manichaeism

Origen and Jerome argue that, if David were a man, then, by saying this, he would have said something both true and false. To avoid this, they claim that David, being holy, is a god and not a man. They then assert that what David said is true: gods always tell the truth, and men always lie.

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