Deuterographs: Duplicate Passages in the Old Testament, Their Bearing on the Text and Compilation of the Hebrew Scriptures (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Deuterographs: Duplicate Passages in the Old Testament, Their Bearing on the Text and Compilation of the Hebrew Scriptures

A careful examination of the parallel histories brings out the fact that there is not only a substantial agreement but also a textual relationship between the two records in fact, either the second is in certain parts an extract from the first, or else both works have been compiled from a common source. The former of these alternatives seems the more reasonable unless formidable objections can be produced against it, for the construction of imaginary documents generally means the creation of fresh difficulties.

A further and more exact collation of the common matter contained in our present Hebrew texts leads to the conclusion that there are numerous additions, omissions, and variations, in B. As compared with A.

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