Who formed ancient Israel and wrote the Bible? How did the aforementioned tribes end up in the family photo album of the new nation called Israel? To what extent did each tribe contribute to the formation of biblical faith?
--- p.23

As the three groups migrated, they each brought with them different memories and idols.
In Israel's melting pot, the traditions of each group were to be melted into the unified family story of the entire nation.
In this way, Abraham and Jacob became the ancestors of an entire nation from the group of immigrants from Haran.
The memories of the Canaanites who lived in Egypt during the Hyksos era were adapted into the story of Joseph, and the Exodus story was adapted into the story of the escape of all the Israelites from Egypt under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

--- p.72~73

However, biblical tradition dates the writing of the Ten Commandments to the time of wandering in the wilderness of Sinai.
Although this may seem to lack the historicity of the Bible or Israel, there is some truth in it.
The core of Israel's early commandments were established while the Hebrews were in the Sinai Desert.

--- p.123

The core of the Shechem Covenant was that Israel chose Yahweh as their God.
They made this choice of their own free will, without any coercion.
Joshua established the first covenant between Yahweh and Israel and wrote Yahweh's commandments in a book.
--- p.142

Important clues to Moses' faith and religious reform are preserved in the Bible.
This can be found in the priestly documents which well preserve the perception of the Hebrew Levitical group that came out of Egypt.

--- p.145

The metaphors of marriage and jealousy capture the tension between the biblical tendency to present God as above the natural world and detached from physiological function and the demand for an intimate, obligatory, and binding relationship between God and his people.

--- p.168