Schriftgelehrte Fortschreibungs- und Auslegungsprozesse

The literary genesis of many texts within the Hebrew Bible can be explained as scriptural expansion (»Fortschreibung«) or exegesis: Later texts expand older texts and regularly adapt them to new situations inside or outside the texts. The literary techniques and hermeneutical reasons behind these processes are manifold, however not yet categorized comprehensively.
The volume attempts to demonstrate and categorize such phenomena of scriptural expansion (»Fortschreibung«) or exegesis in the Pentateuch, its textual history, as well as in empirical examples from Qumran, Egypt and Mesopotamia in order to reveal their techniques, hermeneutics and theological intentions.