Princeton University Press, 2018. — 424 p. The Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan Assmann, a leading historian of ancient religion. The story of Moses guiding the enslaved children of Israel out of captivity to become God’s chosen people is...
Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. — 659 p. — (Old Testament Library) Taking a pioneering approach to commentary writing, Brevard Childs gives an entirely original treatment to the book of Exodus. Apart from the philological notes and translation, this commentary includes a form-critical section, looking at the growth of the tradition in its previous stages; a consideration of the...
A&C Black, 2004. — 290 p. This book examines the portrayal of Israel as a royal-priestly nation within Exodus and against the background of biblical and ancient Near Eastern thought. Central to the work is a literary study of Exodus 19:4-6 and a demonstration of the pivotal role these verses and their main image have within Exodus. This elective and honorific designation of...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 401 S. — (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies). — ISBN: 9783110418385. Die Erzählung vom Auszug aus Ägypten gehört zu den zentralen und für die kollektive Identität Israels grundlegenden Überlieferungen, die sich im Buch Exodus verdichten, aber auch die gesamte alttestamentliche Literatur durchziehen. Bis heute sind die Überlieferungen in...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 336 p. — (New Cambridge Bible Commentary) This commentary views Exodus as a cultural document, preserving the collective memories of the Israelites and relating them to the major institutions and beliefs that emerged by the end of the time of the Hebrew Bible. It is intended to help the reader follow the story line of Exodus, understand its...
Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2017. — 480 S. In den jüdischen Gemeinden Amerikas und Kanadas ist der »Plaut« das Standardwerk jüdischer Tora-Interpretation. Der Kommentar verbindet die Erläuterungen aus dem Schatz rabbinischer Auslegung zu den fünf Büchern Mose mit den Einsichten der modernen Bibelwissenschaft. Die fünf Bände bieten den hebräischen Originaltext mit Vokalisierung und...
Brill, 2017. — xiv, 234 p. — (Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 154). Postcolonial biblical criticism took shape, largely, by critiquing the book of Exodus. Because of the eventual dispossession of Canaanites in the conquest narratives, so goes the thinking, the Hebrews’ God amounts to little more than a dangerous, destructive, and ethnocentric figure. In Hyphenating...
Brill, 2017. — xvi, 214 p. — (Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, Volume: 174). In Traductor Scriptor, John Screnock situates the Old Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible within the broader scribal culture of the ancient world. Building on current methods in Septuagint studies and textual criticism, Screnock engages the evidence from Qumran, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and the Old...
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