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'Survival is everything'

The book's epigraph comes from Rainer Maria Rilke's Requiem of 1908: Who speaks of victories? To endure is everything.

Enduring outranks winning.

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The line captures the book's thesis in miniature: the Bible was born not from triumph but from the will to survive defeat.

Source: Why the Bible Began, front matter

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