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Pluralistic like modern national memories
National memories are, or pretend to be, pluralistic and popular. They don't silence palace or religious voices but add others and subsume them to the people's perspective.
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Because the narrative passed through many hands, it resembles modern political writing.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 242
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