Politics · 5 · Ahab and Jezebel
From the king's story to God's story
Mesha's inscription tells Moab's history from the king's point of view. Israel's scribes, after their kingdom fell, told their people's past from God's perspective, with no king needed.
A people can be ruled by an idea instead of a monarch.
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In this new vision, Yhwh is the nation's only sovereign and makes his will known through prophets and texts. It borrowed a royal strategy, a shared god and a written past, and turned it into a blueprint for a people without a palace.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 80
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