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The hardest question is 'why?'

Most books on the Bible ask who wrote it, what it says, when, and where. Far fewer ask why it exists at all, and why it arose on the margins rather than at the center.

After who, what, when, and where, we are still left with why.

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Julius Wellhausen put the riddle sharply: why did Israel's history end somewhere so different from that of its neighbors, such as Moab, which began in much the same place? He thought the question unanswerable. Why the Bible Began takes it on.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 9

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