and more elaboration as time went on and the stories were retold.47 These could be found in the Hebrew Bible where they sometimes appeared as foreign elements disconnected from the surrounding text. In other cases, traditions that were integral to the biblical text of a book such as Genesis could be found by determining the smallest identifiable unit of the text and then tracing its development.48 The scholars who used this methodology often accepted the Documentary Hypothesis and other literary
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