The N factor

Recently I reread the introduction to Everett Fox's book Genesis and Exodus: A new English rendition with commentary and notes (Schocken Books, 1983/1990), i.e. the "Preface to the paperback edition", pp. xiii-xxx. As will sometimes happen with good books, what I recall from my first reading over twenty years ago was the sensation that this is good stuff but it doesn't tell me much I hadn't already figured out. By saying that I don't mean to ask to be given any special credit, just to say that, to quote one of my mother's favourite sayings, "all great thinkers think alike".