In this book, Molly Zahn investigates how early Jewish scribes rewrote their authoritative traditions in the course of transmitting them, from minor edits in the course of copying to whole new compositions based on prior works.
Scholars have detected evidence for Rewriting in a wide variety of textual contexts, but Zahn\'s is the first book to map manuscripts and translations of biblical books, so-called \'parabiblical\' compositions, and the sectarian literature from Qumran in relation to one anot.
In this book, Molly Zahn investigates how early Jewish scribes rewrote their authoritative traditions in the course of transmitting them, from minor edits in the course of copying to whole new compositions based on prior works