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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...

This section forms the focal point of the Biblical account of the bondage and liberation, describing seriatim, the Divine acts that brought retribution on Pharaoh and his servants because of the enslavement of the Israelites, and, in the end, compelled them to let Israel go free from the midst of their people. In this section there are particularly apparent traces of the ancient epic poem to which I have already referred several times.
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