"... Finally, I come to the Joseph story as conceived by the author of the present combined P / non-P text. As is often the case for this conflator, he followed P’s lead. In this case, the P / non-P conflator features a clear scroll-division between the ancestoral story and Exodus-Moses story, preserving the beginning of the separate P scroll in Exodus 1:1–6 (also probably most of 1:7). Notably, this scroll-division in the P / non-P composition may have allowed this conflator of P and non-P to depart from a pattern seen elsewhere in his work in his treatment of parallel death notices for specific figures in P and non-P. Elsewhere, this conflator appears to have left aside parallel death notices for major figures such as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, preserving only the Priestly versions. In the case of Joseph, the RP conflator preserved both of Joseph’s death notices, using the non-P death notice for Joseph to conclude the Genesis scroll in Genesis 50:26, while preserving the P death notice for Joseph in Exodus 1:6 as part of the P block introducing a P / non-P Exodus scroll (Exodus 1:1–6). The result of this compositional move was the above-noted incipit-like phenomenon used elsewhere in the ancient Near East to bridge parts of a single composition that is written on multiple scrolls or tablets. Though the non-P and P death notices are not the closer duplicates typically used to join scrolls like 2 Chronicles (36:22–23) and Ezra (1:1–4), they serve a similar function in connecting the stories in Genesis and Exodus now preserved on separate written media ..."