Texts · 16 · Isaac and Rebekah

Don't seek the 'original' text

Since multiple scribes could expand a text simultaneously, producing competing versions, the very idea of one original formulation is problematic.

Identify additions; don't over-reconstruct.

Dig deeper

Early readers often harmonized competing versions, a precursor of 'Rewritten Bible' works like Jubilees.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 254

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