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,