History · Prologue
The vanquished came home and rebuilt
Instead of vanishing, survivors gradually returned and rebuilt their communal life under foreign rule, with a new, smaller temple and repaired city walls.
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With little infrastructure and a meager population, there was only so much they could do. What made the moment momentous was what some of their scribes achieved in those subsistence conditions.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. xiii
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