Big Ideas · 18 · Hannah and Samuel
The writing on the wall
In Judah's last decades, many saw it would share Israel's fate. Southern scribes then became sympathetic to the North's view that monarchy isn't essential.
Impending doom changes minds.
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After long insisting on Judean exceptionalism, they embraced the People's History and made room for Judah in it.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 290
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