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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...

To enable us to understand the story of the making of the calf in its general aspect and in its details, and also to explain why it is recorded at this particular juncture, between the directions for the construction of the tabernacle and the account of their implementation, several preliminary observations will be necessary. We have already noted earlier, in our commentary to 25:18 ff., that the kappōreth over the ark, and
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