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The Bible's storyline in seven steps
Abraham's grandson Jacob is renamed Israel; his twelve sons go to Egypt; they become a people and are enslaved; they're freed and return; David and Solomon rule; the kingdom splits; both kingdoms fall.
The story the Bible tells about itself.
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Jacob Wright calls this a gross simplification, and the coming chapters show how historians read it differently, working backward from the two kingdoms.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 25–26
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