{"id":259794,"date":"2026-07-13T17:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/exodus-1-18-graham-i-davies\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:13:50","slug":"exodus-1-18-graham-i-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/exodus-1-18-graham-i-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"Exodus 1 – 18 – Graham I Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The antecedent of \u010b\u010d might theoretically be either the name Yahweh alone or the combination of it with the titles which follow. But the former is much more likely, both on general grounds and in the light of OT usage elsewhere (e.g. 6.3; 15.3). f. Heb. \u0114\u0113\u0119\u0113\u000f\u0003DV\u0003LQ\u0003VLPLODU\u0003IRUPXODH\u0003HOVHZKHUH\u000f\u0003GHQRWHV\u0003DQ\u0003LQGH\u00bfQLWHO\\\u0003ORQJ\u0003 period of time, but without the connotations of \u2018eternity\u2019 (cf. the note below on the parallel phrase). The defective writing is quite common (20x according to BDB, p. 761), and no basis for the correlation with \u0114\u0113\u0119 = \u2018hide\u2019 proposed, with the implication of ineffability, in Exod.R.<\/p>\n

3.7 and Rashi ad loc. g. Heb. \u0110\u011f\u0112\u010d. \u011f \u00f9\u0112\u00f8\u010d generally means \u2018memory, remembrance\u2019, with the special sense sometimes of \u2018renown, fame\u2019 (Isa. 26.8; Hos. 14.8 and probably Ps. 135.13). The only really close parallel to the sense required here, which must be \u2018designation\u2019, as that by which someone is remembered, is Hos. 12.6, where \u011f\u0112\u010d appears in a formula in which \u0114\u02c3 is often used (e.g.<\/p>\n

Amos 5.8). Attempts to distinguish between the referents of \u0114\u02c3 and \u011f\u0112\u010d here (Childs, Propp) are probably mistaken. h. \u011f\u010a\u0003\u011f\u010a\u0113. Straightforward repetition (as distinct from the alternative idiom which links the nouns by waw, e.g. Pss. 102.13; 135.13) can indicate the superlative degree (GK \u00a7133l, followed by Schmidt), hence \u2018the remotest generation(s)\u2019, but may also indicate totality (GK \u00a7123c: cf. Propp), so \u2018(throughout) all ages\u2019, and this seems more probable here. The parallelism of phrases containing \u011f \u010a with \u0114\u0113\u010c\u0119 is very frequent, and appears already in Ugaritic, where the repetition of dr without w, as here, is normal (see Propp, p. 205, for references).<\/p>\n

In BH the only exact parallels to the idiom are Exod. 17.16 (of the past: see Note u on the translation of 17.8-16) and Prov. 27.24 (with \u0114\u0113\u010c\u0119\u0113 in parallel). Explanatory Notes 13. Unlike Jacob (Gen.<\/p>\n

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The GH\u00bfQLWLRQ\u0003 RI\u0003 WKH\u0003 \u00bfUVW\u0003 WH[WXDO\u0003 XQLW\u0003 RI\u0003 WKH\u0003 ERRN\u0003 RI\u0003 ([RGXV\u0003 LV\u0003 not entirely straightforward, despite the practical unanimity of commentators and translators, as well as the Masoretes, in identi- fying it as 1.1-7. On formal grounds the break between the list of names, with its conclusion, and the narrative comes after 1.5 (so the SDUDJUDSKLQJ\u0003LQ\u00031(%\u000f\u00035(% \u0011\u00030RUH\u0003VLJQL\u00bfFDQW\u000f\u0003KRZHYHU\u000f\u0003LV\u0003WKH\u0003IDFW\u0003 that the book begins by recapitulating matters already dealt with at the end of Genesis (see the detailed notes below). The boundary between this r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and the opening of the Exodus story itself is most naturally placed after 1.6, as in the Geneva Bible and the AV.1 It could be argued that v.<\/p>\n

7 also belongs to the r\u00e9sum\u00e9, because of its anticipation in Gen. 47.27, but that anticipation is only partial and v. 7 belongs more closely with what follows. The priority of the subject in v. 7 supports the view that it is a new beginning, and the structural arguments of P. Weimar (\u2018Exodus 1,1\u20132,10\u2019, pp. 186-88) against it are not decisive.<\/p>\n

The form of 1.1-6, despite its uniform function, is twofold. Verses 1-5 are a list with introduction (v. 1) and conclusion (v. 5), which has been compared to Gen. 25.13-16 and 35.22b-26, for example (Schmidt, p. 26). A difference from these, purely genealogical, lists LV\u0003WKH\u0003VSHFL\u00bfF\u0003QDUUDWLYH\u0003HSLVRGH\u0003WR\u0003ZKLFK\u0003WKH\u0003SUHVHQW\u0003OLVW\u0003LV\u0003DWWDFKHG\u0003 by the phrase \u2018who came to Egypt\u2019: this is the reason for the omission 1\u0bd2\u00036R\u0003DOVR\u0003&RDWV\u000f\u0003\u00b56WUXFWXUDO\u00037UDQVLWLRQ\u00b6\u000f\u0003S\u0011\u0003\u0014\u0016\u0013 \u0003Exodus 1\u201318, pp. 21-22. MOSES\u2019 COMMISSIONING AND APPROACH TO PHARAOH (2.23\u20137.13) &\u0d81\u0d7a\u0d89\u0d8d\u0d7e\u0d8b\u0003\u0015\u0011\u0015\u0016\u0010\u0015\u0018 *\u0d88\u0d7d\u00b6\u0d8c\u0003&\u0d88\u0d87\u0d7c\u0d7e\u0d8b\u0d87\u0003\u0d7f\u0d88\u0d8b\u0003+\u0d82\u0d8c\u00033\u0d7e\u0d88\u0d89\u0d85\u0d7e\u0003,\u0d8c\u0d8b\u0d7a\u0d7e\u0d85 This short section is marked as a separate paragraph in MT and 4QpalGen-Ex1, but in SP it is joined to 3.1-6.<\/p>\n

It consists of two DSSDUHQWO\\\u0003XQFRQQHFWHG\u0003SDUWV \u0003WKH\u0003\u00bfUVW\u0003SDUW\u0003RI\u0003Y\u0011\u0003\u0015\u0016\u0003 WR\u0003EH\u0003SUHFLVH\u000f\u0003 v. 23a\u03b1) reports the death of the king of Egypt and the remainder contains a somewhat repetitious (almost poetic in its multiplicity) account of the Israelites\u2019 pained cry for help in their distress and the initial reactions of God to it. The brevity of v. 23a (as we shall refer to it here) is comparable to the similar \u2018death notice\u2019 in 1.6 and in its content it is the counterpart of 1.8, which once followed 1.6 and reports the accession of this king.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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