History · 19 · Solomon and Sheba

Like Italy and Germany before unification

Judges links independent stories of regions and clans, as nineteenth-century historians stitched together histories of pre-unification Italy and Germany.

With one key difference.

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The biblical authors weren't serving an emerging nation-state; they were consolidating a nation without one.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 307–308

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