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Why does the leopard have spots?
Asked why the Bible exists, many believers answer: because God wanted to reveal truth. A historian can respect that and still ask a different question.
Faith asks 'who?'; history also asks 'why here, why then?'
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A wildlife biologist wouldn't stop at 'God made the leopard spotted.' Likewise, the historian wants the immediate reasons the Bible was written in a remote, conquered region rather than at the great centers of civilization.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. xv
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