id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt f4752f77w8m David Andrew Teeter Exegesis in the Transmission of Biblical Law in the Second Temple Period: Preliminary Studies 2008 .txt text/plain 349 13 35 The analysis of these cases offers important data for better understanding the pluriformity of the pentateuchal text in the period, for assessing the character and scope of scribal exegesis in the transmission of biblical law, and for charting the unclear literary boundaries between scriptural transmission and exegetical rewriting in the period. The present dissertation offers a specific contribution toward these larger ends by collecting and analyzing all examples of a single type of variant--namely, major textual pluses--preserved in extant witnesses to pentateuchal legal texts from the period. cache/f4752f77w8m.txt txt/f4752f77w8m.txt