came to be what Christians call the Old Testament (OT), Jews call the Tanakh, and scholars call the Hebrew Bible (HB).4 Not surprisingly, in recent years scholars have investigated the approaches and methods of biblical exegesis in late antiquity. The hermeneutical principles of Philo, Josephus, the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the OT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, NT writers, the various recensions and translations of Scripture, and early rabbinic and ecclesiastical literature have been investigated
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