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“..they force their readers into a challenging dialogue with earlier works. They defence the reader's right to argue - with the text, with the tradition, and even with the deity. In so doing, they validate, and give voice to those who struggle with the perennial problem of the theodicy that arose from the new covenantal order.”

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Book:Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

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“Pushback and questioning make a system more flexible and resilient, and this intuition clearly informed the inclusion of a couple of other controversial books.”

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Book:Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

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“Law without a story was ineffective.”

Bible Scripture

Book:Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

Source: Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins