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The role of Egypt in the Old Testament, particularly in the Pentateuch, is a significant one. John Currid’s in-depth study of that role sheds valuable light on this important aspect of Israel’s history and Scriptures. Currid observes that more biblical scholars today are returning to the study of Egypt and its texts. “My hope,” he writes, “is that this volume will add to the growing interest in...

Several recent studies into the Egyptian background of the Exodus traditions have focused on the polemical nature of some of the biblical accounts.1 The principal area of many of these studies has been comparative linguistics and particularly the parallel usages of idiomatic expressions. For instance, ancient Egyptian texts characteristically described Pharaonic power in terms of Pharaoh’s “strong hand,” his being the
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