Numerous components of the Hebrew Bible, if one takes the time to make a point-by-point comparison with other components of the Hebrew Bible, or a cross-comparison among attested variant editions of one and the same textual bloc, turn out to witness to successive revisions of a base text. An introduction to the study of these revisions, with a plethora of worked examples, has yet to be written. In the meantime, a number of studies might be recommended. The point of departure I wish to highlight here is a bibliographic essay on inner-biblical exegesis by Bernard Levinson, pages 95-181 in Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008; paperback ed., 2010).
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