original outlines. Poets interpret stories, narrators expound verses of poetry, prophets explain the Pentateuch. We do not exaggerate when we say that no literary unit in the Bible stands alone, isolated and independent, without another’s drawing from its spring or casting new light upon it.1 The world of inner-biblical interpretation is not a recent discovery. That exegesis is embedded within the Bible was recognized by the last few generations of researchers, even when those scholars did not employ