ABSTRACT
An interesting and well known phenomenon of the Hebrew Bible is the existence of parallel passages. What this means is that there are cases of the same passage in more than one place in the Hebrew Bible. This chapter focuses on the parallel between 2 Kings 25 and Jeremiah 52. In the chapter, each manuscript of a Biblical composition represented a different performance of the tradition. Ancient literary manuscripts were not the repositories of fixed texts of compositions. They were a very flexible means of communication, each one of them containing a re-presentation of what was understood to be the essential meaning of the tradition reflected in the written composition. Each performance, therefore, had the flexibility to be reshaped in ways that most effectively conveyed the meaning of the text for the intended audience of that text.
