Big Ideas · 9 · Daughter Zion

Most nations' stories end in triumph

The stories political communities usually tell culminate in victory. The Bible's peculiar focus on loss is a clue to why it exists.

Loss is the lens.

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Lamentations' 'how' leads back to the book's central 'why': why is defeat so central to biblical memory?

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 138

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