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Compositeness, Conflation and the Pentateuch

Interest in the possibility of finding suitable analogues for the documentary sources envisaged by modem Pentateuchal criticism continues alongside current ’final form’ investigations. The first part of this article, which includes an augmented list of most of the analogues that have been proposed, considers the relevance of this material, and especially in the light of the distinction that is properly made between ’composite’ and ’conflate’. In the second section, Numbers 16, which has claims to be regarded as a prime example of a composite narrative within the Pentateuch, is discussed from the sole perspective of the question, ’Why composite?’