id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt jw827942g7s Molly M. Zahn The Forms and Methods of Early Jewish Reworkings of the Pentateuch in Light of 4Q158 2009 .txt text/plain 349 12 35 The analysis conducted here provides empirical foundations for exploring issues that arise out of this discussion, such as the relationship between particular forms of reworking and particular exegetical goals; the connection between particular forms and purposes of reworking and the status of the resulting rewritten text; and the ways in which rewritten texts that constitute new compositions can be distinguished from expanded editions of biblical books. The methods of reworking in the 4QRP manuscripts are then compared with those evidenced in two related texts or text groups: the Samaritan Pentateuch and its Qumranic forebears, and the Temple Scroll (11QT). cache/jw827942g7s.txt txt/jw827942g7s.txt