“telling”—and as something of a guide for the reader, a how-to for the analysis of other pentateuchal texts. Thus each one begins with the assumption that a text is unified until shown to be otherwise and continues with the analysis through the disentanglement of the sources. Each also contains discussion of how the sources discovered in this passage fit into their respective documents as a whole, as well as engagement with alternative views. Interwoven with these case studies are five chapters dealing
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