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Exodus 19–40: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The conclusion of William H. C. Propp’s masterful study of Exodus, this informative, clearly written commentary provides a new perspective on Israelite culture and on the role of ritual, law, and covenant in biblical religion. Exodus 19–40 sets a new standard in biblical scholarship. Thorough and up-to-date, it is the first commentary on Exodus to include critical textual evidence from the...

in Gen 15:17 to seal Yahweh’s vows to Abram. (For further discussion of symbolic injuries, see vol. I, pp. 33, 233–40; vol. II, pp. 529–31; Propp 2004a.) Moreover, the blood of Exodus 24 comes from sacrificed animals. The people hence are implicitly equated with the slain victims. They are like human sacrifices, transferred into Yahweh’s domain as qōdeš ‘Holiness, sacred offering.’ (On animal sacrifice and priestly consecration as vicarious human sacrifices, see further below, pp. 531, 695–705.)
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