History · 21 · Yhwh and His People
'We are brothers'
An Anatolian king wrote to his Babylonian ally that their fathers had become brothers: enemy of one, enemy of the other; friend of one, friend of the other.
Kinship was the language of diplomacy.
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Biblical texts apply this diplomatic idiom of chosen kinship to individuals and communities forming a nation.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 348–349
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