Harmonize

Harmonize refers to an interpretive practice in which differences between texts are explained or reshaped so the texts can be read as agreeing. This is done after the differences are noticed, by supplying missing details, narrowing meanings, or treating one passage as correcting or clarifying another. Harmonization does not remove the original tension between texts, since the differences remain present in the wording itself. Instead, it offers a later interpretive solution that overlays coherence onto material that was not originally uniform.