| 13.07.05 - A Biblical Backgrounder 1 | St Lukes (1780 words) |
 | It was in the children of IsraelÃs political interest then (from around 1300 BCE) to claim that a divine promise was made to their ancestors some 500 years previously that this land would be their land, and to associate these ancestors with three Canaanite holy places. |
| J, the oldest written source, is dated by scholars to the 900s BCE in Jerusalem, reflecting the worldview of a court writer in the time of the glory of SolomonÃs reign, where Jerusalem and its temple is the ritual heart of Israel. |
| E is dated to the 800s BCE, from the by now separated northern kingdom, and downplays the centrality of Jerusalem by emphasising other holy places such as the shrine at Bethel. |
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