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On the Book of Exodus

Early Childs on Source Criticism and the Final Form

By P. Sumpter, 21 April 2008

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Brevard Childs has often been accused of “flattening the text,” i.e seeking literary unity where there is none for the sake of sticking with the text’s final form. However, it is clear as one reads his 1974 Exodus commentary that nothing could be farther than the truth... In what, then, does the "integrity" of the final form consist, if not in its literary structure, and why is this so important to Childs?

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