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There’s even a word for early readers of the scripture trying to figure out their own texts, pesher. It’s when then go through all the texts and try to connect them in ways they really aren’t connected. A well known one is the story in Isaiah of a young woman’s child and a specific King, that gets turned into a story of a virgin birth, so now we sing, “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”. The Qumran library is full of them. They are also in the later OT books, like Daniel.