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This volume offers a synchronic, literary reading of the final form of the laws of Exodus 20:22–23:19 (commonly, though inaccurately labeled “The Book of the Covenant”), in contrast with primarily source and form critical approaches commonly utilized in the past. The work seeks to demonstrate that this literary unit is much more coherent, more integrated into its narrative context, less in need...

difficult. Childs1 understands the expression הזכיר את השׁם to mean simply ‘to proclaim the name’ as in Isa. 12:4, 26:13 and Ps. 45:18. This is possible. But how is it that God proclaims his own name? The more expected reading would be second person, ‘where you proclaim my name’, which is what the Syriac version actually does read. Is the text corrupt? Such a source-oriented view is plausible here. There is also, however, a plausible literary explanation for the use of the first person that requires
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