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Two separate origin stories in one Bible
The Family Story of Genesis and the Exodus-Conquest Account from Exodus to Joshua now read as one continuous story. They likely began as separate works with different images of the past.
The seams are still visible.
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Scribes created both by combining earlier traditions, grafting independent figures into one family tree and linking Moses at one end to Joshua at the other.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 40–41
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