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More doing than reading at first

Genesis 1 and Second Isaiah first circulated in small circles: priests, and perhaps scribes in Babylon. Judah was far from biblically literate.

Building came before the book.

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It would take centuries for Judah to become a People of the Book. The first steps involved rebuilding, not reading.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 167

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