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This is called “innerbiblical exegesis.” See Michael Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985).

Ulrich, “The Bible in the Making: The Scriptures at Qumran,” in The Community of the Renewed Covenant, ed. Ulrich and James VanderKam (Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame, 1996), p. 84.

Emanuel Tov, “The Nature and Background of Harmonizations in Biblical Manuscripts,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 31 (1985), pp. 3–29.

Sidnie White Crawford, “4QDeutⁿ,” in Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XIV, ed. Eugene Ulrich et al. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), pp. 117–128, pls. 28–29.

W.D. Davies and Dale C. Allison, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1988), p. 397.

Heinz Schürmann, “Die vorösterlichen Anfänge der Logientradition: Versuch eines formgeschichtlichen Zugangs zum Leben Jesu,” in Helmut Ristow and Karl Matthiae, eds., Der historische Jesus und der kerygmatische Christus: Beiträge zum Christusverständnis in Forschung und Verkündigung (Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1962), pp. 342–370.

For details, see Edgar V. McKnight, What Is Form Criticism? (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969).

Incidentally, Mark’s language at this point is awkward. This may best be explained as an inept transfer into indirect speech of a firsthand report by Peter: “We came into our house with James and John…” This is one of those narratives where we get very close to an eyewitness. See Vincent Taylor, The Gospel According to Mark (London, 1963), pp. 178–179. The skepticism of Strickert (Bethsaida, p. 26) is entirely unwarranted.

See most recently Strickert, Bethsaida, p. 26.