TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cassuto,Umberto
AU  - Abrahams,Israel
TI  - A commentary on the book of Exodus /Umberto Cassuto ; translated from the Hebrew by Israel Abrahams
SN  - 9652234567
AV  - BS1245 .C666 1983
PY  - 1983///
CY  - Jerusalem
PB  - Magnes Press, Hebrew University
KW  - Bible
KW  - Exodus
KW  - Commentaries
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Hebrew - HEB
N1  - PART 1: The bondage and liberation (I-XVII) --; 1. The bondage (11-22) --; 2. The birth of the saviour and his upbringing --; 3. Moses' mission --; 4. The first attempt and its failure --; 5. Prelude to successful action --; 6. The plagues --; 7. The exodus from Egypt --; 8. The division of the Sea of Reeds --; 9. The travails of the journey --; PART 2: The Torah and its precepts (XVIII-XXIV) --; 1. Israel is welcomed as one of the nations of the world --; 2. The revelation at Mount Sinai --; 3. Statutes and ordinances --; 4. The making of the covenant --; PART 3: The tabernacle and its service (XXV-XL) --; 1. Directions for the construction of the tabernacle --; 2. The making of the calf --; 3. The execution of the work of the tabernacle and its erection; 2; https://ciu.libwizard.com/f/copyright-requests
N2  - The late Professor U. Cassuto had originally planned to write, in Hebrew, a monumental commentary on the Bible that would comprise a series of detailed expositions of the Book of Genesis, and less elaborate commentaries, consisting of one volume for each book, devoted to the remaining four books of the Pentateuch. It was also his intention to compose a compendious Introduction to the Torah as a whole, and a comprehensive commentary on the Book of Psalms. Unhappily the author died after completing only three of his commentaries (two on Genesis and one on Exodus). The present volume, A commentary on the Book of Exodus, is the last of the commentaries to be rendered into English. Cassuto's comments have a vivid quality seldom found in the exegetical writings of other Biblical expositors, who all too often prefer a jejune and lifeless approach to their subject. Cassuto succeeds in injecting a sense of dramatic excitement into his interpretations. Without neglecting the scientific data provided by archeological and philological research, he makes us conscious of the literary attributes of the Bible. Unlike the volumes dealing with the first two pericopes of Genesis, the present work does not separate the annotations from the Biblical text, but forms a continuous, unified commentary in which the Scriptural citations are interlinked with the exposition. The elements are so closely and artistically interwoven as to form a new literary entity not a text with notes, but a homogeneous expository work, which must rank among the finest modern contributions to the treasury of Biblical learning
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