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Not just a curriculum for elites
Some scholars see the Bible as a curriculum for Judah's Hellenistic-Roman elite. But elites always sought prestige; what's new is the Bible's national scope.
Education for a whole people.
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Post-defeat scribes made education the way defeated communities could compete collectively on the world stage.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 230–231
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