Download or read book Rewriting the Sacred Text written by Kristin De Troyer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers may be surprised at the complex course that many biblical texts traveled between original composition and inclusion in the Jewish or Christian canons of Scripture. Four different patterns of development are examined and evaluated in this study.