This book is an analysis of inner-biblical exegesis which ordinarily involves examination of the intertextual relationship between two texts within the biblical corpus. The direction of dependence between texts of this kind is not as important in the present study as the direction in which these texts were meant to be read by those who gave them their final shape.

Michael B. Shepherd received his PhD in Old Testament Studies from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew and Holder of the John and Allie Fogleman Professorship in Religion at Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana. His previous works include multiple peer-reviewed journal articles as well as the following books published by Peter Lang: , and