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See recent commentaries: e.g., Martin Noth, Exodus (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1962); Umberto Cassuto, A Commentary on the Book of Exodus (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1967); Brevard S. Childs, The Book of Exodus (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1974).

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.

For a comprehensive investigation of the Miriamic traditions (excluding Exodus 2:1–10), see Rita J. Burns, Has the Lord Indeed Spoken Only Through Moses? A Study of the Biblical Portrait of Miriam, Society of Biblical literature Dissertation Series 84 (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1987). For a wide-ranging structuralist reading, see Edmund Leach, “Why Did Moses Have a Sister?” Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983), pp. 33–67.

See Helga and Manfred Weippert, “Jericho in der Eisenzeit,” Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins 92 (1976), pp. 139–145.

Tell Halaf: F. Langenegger, K, Müller and Rudolph Naumann, Tell Halaf 2 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1950). Hama: E. Fugmann, Hama: Fouilles et Rucherches 1931–1938 II/1 (Copenhagen: Nationalmuseet, 1958), p. 234.

For the reasoning behind this suggestion, see Goodspeed, Formation of the New Testament, pp. 33–41.

It may have been the publication of Acts, with the prominent place it gave to Paul’s missionary activity that inspired the collection of Paul’s letters. So Edgar Goodspeed first argued in The Formation of the New Testament, pp. 20–32.

Paul became convinced that it was important for him to collect contributions from the churches he had established in Macedonia and Greece for the mother church in Jerusalem and to deliver those contributions in person (1 Corinthians 16:1–4; 2 Corinthians 8:1–15; Romans 15:25–27).

See, for instance, T.W. Manson, Studies in the Gospels and Epistles (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1962), p. 168f.