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The abundant repetitions in the Pentateuch have helped Bible scholars recognize at least four discrete stories that have been woven together to make one continuous narrative. By pinpointing the duplications and discrepancies in the Biblical account of the giving of the law, author Baruch Schwartz attempts to untangle these four strands (called J, E, P and D) and to reconstitute the original accounts of what occurred on Mount Sinai.