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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...

‘Holiness’ connotes an offering, while in related languages the cognate qudš is a goddess, and the plural qdšm denotes gods in general (see vol. I, p. 527). More remote parallels are ʿaštārôt ‘Astarte-goddesses’ or ‘young animals’ (Deut 7:13; 28:4, 18, 51) and ʾăšērâ ‘(the goddess) Asherah’ or a ‘sacred pole’ (NOTE to 34:13). At a remove of over two millennia, it is hard to know, let alone to understand, what used to happen at the Israelite Topheth and analogous shrines along the Mediterranean.
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