Texts · 8 · Josiah and Huldah

The book-finding trick

Claiming to 'find' an old book was a common ancient way to give a new text the authority of antiquity.

New texts in old clothes.

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Deuteronomy's laws may have begun to take shape during Josiah's reign, then presented as long-lost.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 120

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