Big Ideas · 15 · Jeremiah and Baruch
No happy ending, but hope
By admitting defeat and examining its causes, the narrative called exiled communities home to reinvent themselves as the nation imagined in the Torah.
Hope without a Hollywood ending.
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Statehood's achievements were necessary but not sufficient; collapse was the decisive factor.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 250–251
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