Exodus: An Introduction and Commentary
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Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

Volume 2

General Editor: Donald J. Wiseman

Exodus

An Introduction and Commentary

R. Alan Cole

Inter-Varsity Press, England

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Nottingham NG7 3HR, England

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InterVarsity Press, USA

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© Inter-Varsity Press, London 1973

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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. All rights reserved. “NIV” is a registered trademark of International Bible Society. UK trademark number 1448790. Distributed in North America by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.

First published 1973

Reprinted in this format 2008

UK ISBN: 978-1-84474-257-8

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cole, R. Alan, 1923–.

Exodus: an introduction and commentary / R. Alan Cole.

p. cm.—(Tyndale Old Testament commentaries; v. 2)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8308-4202-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Bible. O.T. Exodus—Commentaries. I. Title.

BS1245.3.C6

222'.12/07—dc22

2007052781

US ISBN: 978-0-8308-4202-5

CONTENTS

General preface

Author’s preface

Chief abbreviations

Introduction

The contents of Exodus

Exodus as a part of the Pentateuch

Exodus and Pentateuchal ‘sources’

Problems of the book of Exodus

Relevance of the book of Exodus

The Theology of Exodus

Excursus 1. The date of the exodus

Excursus 2. The site of the ‘Red Sea’

Excursus 3. The sources of Exodus

Analysis

Commentary

GENERAL PREFACE

The aim of this series of Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries, as it was in the companion volumes on the New Testament, is to provide the student of the Bible with a handy, up-to-date commentary on each book, with the primary emphasis on exegesis. Major critical questions are discussed in the introductions and additional notes, while undue technicalities have been avoided.

In this series individual authors are, of course, free ...

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About Exodus: An Introduction and Commentary

Exodus, R. Alan Cole says, is “the centre of the Old Testament.” It recounts the supreme Old Testament example of the saving acts of God, narrates the instituting of Passover and enshrines the giving of God’s law. It portrays Moses, the prototype of all Israel’s prophets, and Aaron, the first high priest. The book of Exodus is especially important to Christians because Christ fulfilled its great themes: He accomplished God’s greatest act of deliverance. He became the Passover lamb. He sealed a new covenant with his blood. “No book therefore will more repay careful study, if we wish to understand the central message of the New Testament, than this book.”

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