Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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Studies in the Bible and Antiquity

Authors

James L. Kugel

Keywords

Hebrew Bible, Judaism, Biblical studies

Abstract

Thanks to the work of scholars of the Hebrew Bible over the last two centuries or so, we now know a great deal about how and when various biblical texts were composed and assembled; in fact, this has been the focus of much of modern biblical scholarship. One thing has become clear as a result. Our biblical texts are actually the product of multiple acts of rewriting. All our canonical books have been found to be, in some degree, the result of editorial expansion, rearrangement, and redaction introduced by various anonymous ancient scholars.

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