A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 5
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The New Idea of the Jews
It is not so much the Jews who made the Bible, as the Bible which made the Jews. They were a people exalted by their sense of common destiny. This belief saturated them all when they returned to Jerusalem after the captivity in Babylon. Is it any miracle that many Babylonians and Syrians and later on many Phoenicians, speaking practically the same language,. should be attracted by this inspiring cult?
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