majority of biblical texts nevertheless have a history of redaction and transmission, so when interpreters claim to have discovered the author’s intention, they need to be able to specify which author. Is it ‘the original author’, a particular redactor like the Deuteronomist, the person or group responsible for the text as it existed at a certain point in time, the Masoretes for instance, those responsible for a particular translation or version of the text like Jerome, or the team which produced
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