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The Bible's authors never signed their work
Unlike Greek and Roman writers, the scribes who shaped the Bible stayed anonymous. They pointed readers to the lives of others rather than their own.
They told everyone's story but their own.
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They lived in different places and centuries, worked for kings, temples, or imperial administrations, and often disagreed. What united them were shared questions: Who are we? How do the underdogs survive in a world of empires? Can we be a people without kings?
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 15
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