 In answering this, he says, legal historians must go beyond the Bible, using the comparative method.But, adds Daube, this application of the comparative method is not enough.Because "the Bible is an anthology compiled by priests and prophets, who were neither competent nor even desirous to formulate an accurate exposition of Hebrew law," one must first find out something about the true Hebrew law, separating it "from the dress in which priests and prophets have handed it down to us, like assembling a jigsaw puzzle from scattered fragments."