It's a persistent problem partly because it always raises these issues of fictionality versus truthfulness, of honesty versus embellishment.

这是个持久的问题,原因是它一直在质疑虚构性和真实性的关系，还有诚实与修饰的关系。

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A long process of transmission, interweaving, literary embellishment has gone into the creation of this account in Exodus 14 and 15.

经过长期的流传，混杂以及润色,就有了《出埃及记》14和15中的故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选