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J for the “Yahwist,” E for the “Elohist,” P for the “Priestly source,” R for the “Redactor” (or editor) and “other” for passages that cannot be identified (e.g., Genesis 14).

Genesis is part of “the Book of the Torah of Moses,” as indicated by the references to the stories of Creation and Abraham in Nehemiah 9:6–8.

See Richard E. Friedman, See Richard E. Friedman, “;Taking the Biblical Text Apart,” BR 21:04; and his book, Who Wrote the Bible? (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987).

Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (Boston: Colonial Press, 1910; trans. of second French edition, 1832), book 3, ch. 1.

The quotations come from Justin’s Dialogue with Trypho, 103.

For a full discussion, see Ehrman, Orthodox Corruption of Scripture.

For a fuller discussion of this variant, see Ehrman, Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, pp. 187–194. My first treatment of this passage was cowritten with Mark Plunkett.

For these various interpretations, see Ehrman, “A Sinner in the Hands of an Angry Jesus,” in New Testmanet Greek and Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Gerald F. Hawthorne, ed. Amy M. Donaldson and Timothy Sailors (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003).

See Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004), chapter 6.