Hebrew University professor Moshe Greenberg, who died in 2010, was one of the foremost Biblical scholars of the 20th century. His work on Exodus influenced and informed the general public and the scholarly community alike. A second edition of his book Understanding Exodus: A Holistic Commentary on Exodus 1–11—edited and with a foreword by Jeffrey H. Tigay, professor emeritus of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania—was published in 2013. The following quotation is from an excursus by Greenberg titled “Exodus in History: Preliminary Considerations.” The gross features of the Exodus story—the sojourn in Egypt […]