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In this new commentary on Exodus in the Eerdmans Critical Commentary, scholar Thomas B. Dozeman examines the book of Exodus under the rubric of the myriad literary genres that occur in the book. Dozeman accepts the conclusions of the “literary” of “higher criticism” movement and thus believes the book was composed over time throughout Israel's history. Yet, this does not remove theological...

provide historical background for dating the composition of the story of the exodus. D. B. Redford noted that the name Pithom does not appear in hieroglyphic writing with the town determinative until after 600 B.C.E. This historical insight would place the author of the exodus in the late exilic period at the earliest.93 The author of Exodus is not explicitly stated. Yet within the book both God and Moses are credited with writing. God writes laws (Exod 24:12), the architectural plans for
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