Biblical critics frequently assume, out of some dim preconception about the transmission of texts in “primitive” cultures, that the redactors were in the grip of a kind of manic tribal compulsion, driven again and again to include units of traditional material that made no connective sense, for reasons they themselves could not have explained.
Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative (London, Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1981) p.20
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