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John J. Collins’ Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most reliable and widely adopted critical textbooks at undergraduate and graduate levels alike, and for good reason. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments.

3. Moses was guarding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro when he came “to Horeb, the mountain of God (Elohim). There the angel of YHWH appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush.… Then Moses said, ‘I must turn aside and look at this great sight.…’ When YHWH saw that he had turned aside, God (Elohim) called to him out of the bush.” It is possible to explain this passage as the close intersplicing of J and E narratives, but we must assume that the editor took half a verse from one source and
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