Big Ideas · 8 · Josiah and Huldah
The age of territorial states ended
With Judah's fall, the Levant returned to being a land-bridge ruled by empires: Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, caliphates, Ottomans, and British.
Empires came and went; the land stayed contested.
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Territorial states only re-emerged in the twentieth century, as Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, and Syria.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 133
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