That was a story that surely was near and dear to the hearts of Many ancient Israelites and Ancient Near Eastern listeners, so all the elements are there for the retelling of that story.

这个故事必然对一些人来说亲近又珍贵,对那些古代以色列和近东的听众，那就具备了复述故事的一切要素。

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It presses its own themes in retelling those stories. Early laws are subject to reinterpretation. Ezekiel comes along and does some interesting things with some of the legal material that we find in Leviticus. This is all the kind of thing that tradition criticism looks at.

在复述这些故事时它加入了自己的主题，早期的法律,容易遭受重新诠释，《以西结书》在形成过程中,就对我们在《利未记》里看到的法律材料作了一些,有趣的处理，这就是源流批判学探讨的重点。

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Sometimes there are completely new emphases and the story can come out to be a very, very different story. 1 and 2 Chronicles are a retelling and a reworking of much of the material from Genesis through 2 Kings, and it cleans up a lot of the embarrassing moments.

复述的故事会有全新的侧重点，可能和原来的故事之间,存在很大的差别，《历代志》上下就是,对从《创世记》到两部《列王纪》中大量材料的复述和,再加工，它清除了很多令人窘迫的故事。

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