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Not a religion replacing a nation, but a nation beyond the state
The scribes weren't turning Israel into a religious sect. They were building a resilient national identity that could survive conquest.
The nation-state distinction began here.
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By bracketing the monarchy as one era in a longer story, they showed that a defeated, exiled, divided people could flourish without political independence. They turned to something no army could conquer: language and the written word.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 466–468
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