Texts · 11 · Haggai

Babylon, home of biblical writing

Second Isaiah, Ezekiel, a reworked Palace History, and Genesis 1's engagement with Babylonian myth all took shape among exiles in Babylonia.

Diaspora was creative.

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We know little about the authors or how their writings reached Judah. The exchange shows texts beginning to circulate more widely.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 181

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