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In this volume, A commentary on the Book of Exodus, Cassuto’s comments have a vivid quality seldom found in the exegetical writings of other biblical expositors, who all too often prefer a jejune and lifeless approach to their subject. Cassuto succeeds in injecting a sense of dramatic excitement into his interpretations. Without neglecting the scientific data provided by archeological and...

are concerned solely with the received form of the text will find here a straightforward answer to their requirements. (b) The sources of the Book of Exodus are not in my view those recognized by the current hypothesis, namely, P (Priestly Code), E (Elohist), J (Jahwist) and their different strata. One of the principal sources—possibly the principal source—was, if I am not mistaken, an ancient heroic poem, an epos dating back to earliest times, that told at length the story of the Egyptian bondage,
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