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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...

certain respects (especially in its divisions of the text) it is less exact. It was brought to scholarly attention by Paul Kahle and at his instigation was selected as the base text for the third edition of Kittel’s Biblia Hebraica (1937) and subsequently for BHS (the edition mainly used in this commentary), BHQ and the edition of A. Dotan (1973, rev. ed. 2001). There are earlier manuscripts which contain just the Pentateuch (or most of it), among which ms. Or. 4445 of the British Library (B) is
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