Cf. Robert B. Lawton, S.J., “Irony in Early Exodus,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 97 (1985), p 414; J. Cheryl Exum, “ ‘You Shall Let Every Daughter live’: A Study of Exodus 1:8–2:10, ” Semeia 28, The Bible and Feminist Hermeneutics, ed. Mary Ann Tolbert (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983), pp. 74–81.