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This volume continues the study of intertextuality in Wisdom Literature initiated in Reading Job Intertextually. Like that book, Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually provides the first comprehensive treatment of intertextuality in this wisdom text. Articles address intertextual resonances between Ecclesiastes and texts across the Hebrew canon, along with texts throughout history, from Greek...

Reading Num 15:39 in isolation is unfortunate because the verse itself invites a broader intertextual context. Jacob Milgrom (1989, 117) argues the tsitsit passage (15:37–41) is included at the end of the “miscellany of diverse laws” in ch. 15 to form a verbal inclusion with the spies narrative in Num 13–14. He writes, “In ‘scouting’ (tur, 13:2, 25; 14:34), the spies whored (zanah, 14:33) after their eyes and brought
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