whether the text is in process of developing into a final canonical text or whether it existed in more than one canonical form. Before reaching this conclusion however, the text critic must make every effort to distinguish between “literary” versus “transmissional,” or “creative” versus “mechanical,” or “redactional” versus “scribal” additions. Judith Sanderson, following Gesenius and this writer, established some criteria for detecting editorial and scribal additions in the late second temple period