Masoretic Text Variations from DSS, GOT, Samaritan Pentateuch, Apocrypha and internally.

[Steven Avery]

No idea, but some empirical studies seems to support the gradual expansion of OT, see e.g.

Evidence of Editing: Growth and Change of Texts in the Hebrew Bible,
eds. R. Müller, J. Pakkala & Bas ter H. Romeny,
(Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 2014)

 

[Steven Avery]

2014 through Introduction

https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/060375P-front.pdf

good review

http://jbtc.org/v19/TC-2014-Rev-Mueller-Pakkala-Romeny-Dyck.pdf

Evidence of editing : growth and change of texts in the Hebrew Bible : Müller, Reinhard, 1972- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

ix, 255 pages ; 24 cm

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Evidence of Editing

A new perspective on editorial activity in the Hebrew Bible for research and teaching Evidence of Editing lays out the case for substantial and frequent editorial activity within the Hebrew Bible. The authors show how editors omitted, expanded, rewrote, and compiled both smaller and larger...

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[Steven Avery]

Editorial Techniques in the Hebrew Bible

Editorial Techniques in the Hebrew Bible: Toward a Refined Literary Criticism presents and applies a model for understanding and reconstructing the diachronic development of the Hebrew Bible through historical criticism (or the historical-critical method). Reinhard Müller and Juha Pakkala refine...

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[Steven Avery]

The editing book is quite mixed. A few are shortenings, a few are simply comparing Masoretic accounts, there is at least one that involves an apocrypha comparison, maybe five are what you are looking for, and their interpretations are easily challenged. I used an excellent review by Andrew Dyck, although the book is online. http://jbtc.org/v19/TC-2014-Rev-Mueller-Pakkala-Romeny-Dyck.pdf