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A people of protest
The last generations of biblical scribes did something surprising: they added books that invite readers to challenge earlier teachings.
Pushback makes a tradition resilient.
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Books like Job and Ecclesiastes push against the teachings their predecessors spent centuries developing. The scribes seem to have believed that a community empowered to critique its own traditions would grasp both their merits and their limits.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 14–15
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