A CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL COMMENTARY
on
EXODUS 1–18
by
G. I. DAVIES, F.B.A.
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament Studies in the University of Cambridge Fellow of Fitzwilliam College
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOLUMES 1 & 2
Commentary on Exodus 1–18
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The INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL COMMENTARY
on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
GENERAL EDITORS
G. I. DAVIES, F.B.A.
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament Studies in the University of Cambridge Fellow of Fitzwilliam College
AND
C. M. TUCKETT
Emeritus Professor of New Testament in the University of Oxford Fellow of Pembroke College
formerly under the editorship of
J. A. EMERTON, F.B.A., C. E. B. CRANFIELD, F.B.A. and G. N. STANTON
General Editors of the New Series
S. R. DRIVER
A. PLUMMER
C. A. BRIGGS
Founding Editors
1. Names, Place in the Canon and Contents
2. The Text and its Ancient Versions
a. Medieval Jewish Manuscripts
c. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Hebrew Sources
3. Main Component Sections and their Plot, Genres and Theological Themes
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About A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Exodus 1–18, Volumes 1 & 2Davies brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic, textual, philological, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological—to help the reader understand the text at hand. The first ten chapters of Exodus cover the affliction in Egypt and the finding of Moses as well as the plagues of Egypt and Moses’ interactions with Pharaoh. In addition to the parting of the waters and the defeat of Pharaoh’s army the chapters commented upon also include the so-called ‘Song of the Sea’ in Exodus 15, a complex hymn that Davies studies in depth, and the provision of manna in the desert. The textual issues are varied and Davies navigates them deftly, providing close commentary and profound insights into these well-known texts. Two results of Davies’s research are to place the old hypothesis of an Elohistic source on a much stronger footing and to reaffirm that both it and the J source extended through both Genesis and Exodus. |
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