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Defeat was a return to normal
From a long view, the empires that conquered Israel and Judah simply restored the imperial domination that had been the Levant's status quo for four millennia.
What felt unprecedented was the norm.
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The populations experienced it as cosmic collapse. Most of the region's kingdoms and peoples soon vanished from history.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 47
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