Resumptive Repetition. Discourse often goes off on a tangent to the point that the reader is no longer on track of the original discussion. The Talmud Yerushalmi often repeats a key phrase from before the digression so as to re-orient the reader when resuming the main thread. Repetition comes in different forms each one of which potentially points to a different redactive hand.
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