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Whybray provides a straightforward introduction to the contents and themes of the first five books of the Bible. Designed as an entry-level textbook for colleges and seminaries, this volume makes sense of the current muddle in Pentateuchal studies and introduces students to the contributions of earlier scholars in the field. Whybray stresses the meaning of the Pentateuch in its canonical form...

WHEN THE STORY of Abraham’s family is resumed at the beginning of the book of Exodus they have become a nation. The first seven verses of the book state that the descendants of the seventy persons who were living as a family in Egypt in the time of Joseph (Gen. 46:26–27; Exod. 1:5) had grown in number in the course of 430 years (Exod. 12:40; 400 years according to Gen. 15:13) to a numerous people who “filled the land” of Egypt, in accordance with the
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