History · 3 · Deborah

Two transitions, two political models

The Bronze Age collapse made room for locally ruled kingdoms. The fall of those kingdoms centuries later made room for something else: peoplehood.

Each collapse births a new model.

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Part II of the book shows how the end of the Iron Age kingdoms gave rise to a community defined by peoplehood rather than statehood.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 48

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