Big Ideas · 9 · Daughter Zion

Thinking outside the box

While many in Judah wanted to rebuild a kingdom under a Davidic king, others began to ask what it means to be a people.

Territorial sovereignty isn't essential.

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Northern scribes, writing after their own defeat, had shown that a new kind of political community mattered more.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 150

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