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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 which the Patriarchs did not use the name YHWH, and consequently the passage has become one of the fundamental pillars of the documentary hypothesis, yet in this case, too, we can say that if this had been the intention of the text it would have been phrased differently. The verse would have read, ‘but My name YHWH I did not make known’, or ‘but My name YHWH was not known to them’, and not as in the present text, ‘I was not known to them.’ The ancient versions, which render as though it were written,
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