Texts · 7 · Hezekiah and Isaiah
Masterpieces written on the side
Northern scribes who moved south after 722 BCE worked for kings by day. In their spare time, they wrote stories centered on the people rather than the palace.
The side project can outlast the day job.
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History is full of such writers, from Cicero to Maimonides to Goethe and Schiller at the court in Jena, whose own projects became their most influential work, often at odds with their patrons' politics.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 108–111
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