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Unemployed scribes
For many royal scribes, Judah's fall meant losing their jobs. A consciousness of defeat may have taken root first among them as they turned to new kinds of writing.
Crisis redirected talent.
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Yet some southern scribes also downplayed defeat, ending Kings with a Davidic heir honored in Babylon.
Bible reference: 2 Kings 25:27–30
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 149
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