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Judah adopted the North's story and made it its own
After Judah fell too, its scribes embraced the North's people-centered writings and added their own figures: Abraham and Sarah, Aaron, Caleb.
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Southern scribes also added new law collections, like Deuteronomy, that emphasized Jerusalem's temple. But they kept the northern idea of a direct covenant between God and the whole nation, with the kinship and solidarity it fosters.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 116–117
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