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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...

and to the related Case B (the slave-wife) even without continuing the second person formulation. Hence he could revert to the impersonal formulation more typical for this genre without compromising his desire to personalize these two cases as a whole. The narrative context also helps to explain why these two ‘slave laws’ introduce the regulations of Exod. 21:2–23:19 under the new heading of 21:1. Phillips remarks that these cases of the ‘Hebrew’ bondsman and the slave-wife by their humanitarian
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