Big Ideas · 20 · Jonah

The divorce came first

Prophets speak of Israel 'returning' to innocent early days with God. But those days were imagined; the breakup prompted the backstory.

Return to a mythic past is a new beginning.

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Both the prophets' poetry and the Torah's prose detail the relationship's prehistory.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 332

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