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The biblical manuscripts found at Qumran, contends Sidnie White Crawford, reflect a spectrum of text movement from authoritative scriptural traditions to completely new compositions. Treating six major groups of texts, she shows how differences in the texts result from a particular understanding of the work of the scribe—not merely to copy but also to interpret, update, and make relevant the...

of the present canonical biblical text.”5 Vermes’s original list of works belonging to this genre included Josephus’s Antiquities, Jubilees, the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum of Pseudo-Philo, and the Genesis Apocryphon. These constitute a wide variety of works, in different languages and from different time periods, and the question arises of whether in fact they constitute a genre. Nevertheless, Vermes’s definition remains the starting point for any discussion of this phenomenon, and I will begin
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