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The Authority of the Written Word
How did a people once organized around kingdom and temple become a community increasingly organized around written tradition?
Part III — Gods and Kingdoms
What replaced the kingdom?
How did a people once organized around kingdom and temple become a community increasingly organized around written tradition?
Without a Judean king, communal identity increasingly gathered around Torah, scribes, public reading, remembered history, ritual practice, and contested boundaries of belonging.
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