Statement

The authors begin in two places: with Israelite history before the Babylonian Exile of 586 BCE, covered here, and with the Hebrew Bible's emergence, covered in Chapter 2. In their view, Jewishness and the Bible developed inseparably.

References

1. p. 2

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   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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2. p. 2

   supports · main text · ch. 1

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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