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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Exodus 1–18, Volumes 1 & 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Davies brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic, textual, philological, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological—to help the reader understand the text at hand. The first ten chapters of Exodus cover the affliction in Egypt and the finding of Moses as well as the plagues of Egypt and Moses’ interactions with Pharaoh. In addition to the parting of the waters and...

The name ‘Exodus’, a Latinised form of a Greek word (ἔξοδος: cf. LXX at 19:1) meaning ‘departure’, reflects the standard designation of the book used in the early Christian Church and in Greek manuscripts such as Codex Vaticanus (Alexandrinus adds Αἰγύπτου, ‘from Egypt’): the earliest surviving attestations of ‘Exodus’ as a title are in Justin’s Dialogue with Trypho (e.g. 59:1–2: mid-second cent. A.D.) and a list of biblical books attributed
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