Endnote 2 – The Earliest Biblical Exegesis is in the Bible Itself

For additional examples, see Michael Fishbane, “Inner Biblical Exegesis: Types and Strategies of Interpretation in Ancient Israel” in Midrash and Literature, ed. Geoffrey H. Hartman and Sanford Budick (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986); and Fishbane Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985).