Politics · 18 · Hannah and Samuel
Propaganda that backfired
Judah's royal history called northerners to submit to David's dynasty and gloated over their kingdom's fall. It provoked northern scribes to write a history with no king at all.
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When Judah's own fall loomed, southern scribes embraced the northern idea that the monarchy isn't essential to Israel's identity. They then wrote Judah into the story, even making it a sin that Israel didn't conquer the South first, as Caleb urged.
Bible reference: Numbers 13–14
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 289–291
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