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The Bible's real question: what is a people?
Not a kingdom, a city, a clan, or an ethnicity, but a people. The biblical writings ask how a community can hold together after it has lost its king and its state.
A people can outlive its palace.
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The idea was trailblazing: a national community that embraces many cities, clans, and ethnicities, and that no longer depends on territorial sovereignty. That question runs like a thread through stories, laws, prophecy, poetry, and wisdom alike.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. xiv
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