for all of King and Funk’s talk of the liberatory power of history, it wasn’t clear that either of them actually believed in history—not in the way most people did. King wasn’t sure that facts or linear time existed, and Funk argued that all history was fabrication. “The Bible, along with all our histories, is a fiction,” Funk said in his inaugural 1985 speech to the Jesus Seminar. Like all stories, the Bible was a series of “arbitrary” selections by an author who picked characters and events, then forced them into a causal chain with beginning, middle and end. It was only by exposing the
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