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Why didn't anyone save Assyria's books?
No one rescued Ashurbanipal's library when Nineveh fell. It took thousands of years for excavators to find it. Meanwhile, biblical writings were read without interruption.
The Bible's survival needs explaining.
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We might credit Christianity's rise, but Christianity began as a sect interpreting Jewish scripture. And tiny Jewish communities, despite persecution, preserved the texts and their interpretations for millennia.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 8
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