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The Biblical Israel: A History of the Ancient Israelites

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What this book knows

Exile forged scripture: military catastrophe drove Judeans to write, preserve, and reinterpret their identity as a covenantal people.

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Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering, all the precious things that were hers in the days of old.
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Judeans at all levels of society may well have been forced to watch as their families and communities were destroyed.
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Judeans were conquered not because the Israelite god was not strong enough, but because they had not fulfilled their side of the covenant.
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The golden calf comes to symbolize the epitome of evil and disobedience; Moses convincing his god to reduce punishment becomes a defining act.
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self-and-identity

As the sole remnant of the original twelve tribes of Israel, Judah becomes the memory holder for Israel.
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The first 11 chapters of Genesis provide a genealogy that traces how Judeans fit in the foreign world to which they had been exiled.
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