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  • ...data-aht="source">Keli Yekar</a><a href="KeliYekar18-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:1</a><a href="R. Shelomo Ephraim Luntschitz (Keli Yekar)" data-aht="pars <point><b>Timing</b> – See <a href="Chronology – Shemot 18" data-aht="page">Chronology</a> for the range of opinions as to when Yit
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  • ...text, as evidenced by dates, relative ages, or even geographical data.<fn>Tanakh often traces people's travels, so knowing where an event took place might a ...the nation's journey to Canaan (<a href="Shemot16-32-35" data-aht="source">Shemot 16:32-35</a>).</li>
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  • ...ht="source">Jubilees</a><a href="Jubilees30-17-29" data-aht="source">30:17-29</a><a href="Jubilees" data-aht="parshan">About Jubilees</a></multilink>, th ...ShemotSecondCommentary32-29" data-aht="source">Shemot Second Commentary 32:29</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avraham ibn Ez
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  • <h1>Chronology – Shemot 18</h1> ...ee his (earlier) <a href="BiurShemot18-27" data-aht="source">commentary to Shemot 18:27</a> where he proposes that Yitro's departure took place only in the s
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  • ...tps://mg.alhatorah.org/Dual/Olam_HaMikra/Shemot/28.17#m4e0n6">Olam HaMIkra Shemot 28</a>.</p></div> ...ht="source">Shemot 28:17</a> and <a href="Shemot39-8-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 39:10</a>) and the stones of Gan Eden (<a href="Yechezkel28-13" data-aht="s
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  • <h1>Textual Variants – Shemot 18</h1> ...s in four respects:<fn>This is true in general, and specifically regarding Shemot 18 – see examples in the categories below.</fn></p>
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  • <h1>Tenses in Tanakh</h1> ...he subject ("וַיֵּלֶךְ אַבְרָם" or "וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה") . At times, though, Tanakh employs a form known as "עבר מהופך",&#160; beginning with the subje
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  • <content>Commentaries on Tanakh and Talmud, Sifrut Debei Rashi</content> ...urces), to be round numbers.</fn> – July 13, 1105.<fn>This date, Thursday, 29 Tammuz 4865, is found in the colophons of a number of manuscripts of Rashi�
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  • ...aht="source">Shemot 16:34</a><a href="NetzivShemot32-27" data-aht="source">Shemot 32:27</a><a href="NetzivVayikra10-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 10:3</a><a h ...>Shemot 8:25-27</a> and <a href="Shemot9-29-33" data-aht="source">Shemot 9:29-33</a>.</fn> – According to this approach, despite the silence in the tex
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  • ...sef Bekhor Shor</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorShemot16-34" data-aht="source">Shemot 16:34</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef B ...amples, see Shemot 4:22-23 (though perhaps related to 11:5), 7:15-18, 7:26-29, 8:16-19, 9:1-4, 9:13-19, 11:2 and 14:2.&#160; See also <a href="Invoking H
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  • <h1>Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</h1> <category>Treaties in Tanakh
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  • ...k; no parallel to this is to be found upon Yitzchak's death in Bereshit 35:29.</fn> This makes one wonder whether Yaakov was really motivated by pure ma ...y, Hashem refers to the Children of Israel as "בְּנִי בְכֹרִי יִשְׂרָאֵל" (Shemot 4:22). This implies a special status of a chosen nation, unconnected to fi
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  • <p>There are several words In Tanakh which are treated as both masculine and feminine, at times taking a masculi ...:5</a> where it takes a feminine verb (כִּי <b>תֵ</b>צֵא אֵשׁ)<fn>See also Shemot 9:23, Vayikra 6:3,6, Vayikra 9:24, 10:2, Bemidbar 11:2 and others</fn>&#160
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  • <p>Tanakh, like many written works, is filled with repetitions. Sometimes verses repe <p>Some cases of repetition in Tanakh might be accounted for by the principle commonly known as a "כלל ופר�
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  • ...Zvi Hoffmann</a><a href="RDavidZviHoffmannShemot1-11-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 1:11-14</a><a href="R. David Zvi Hoffmann" data-aht="parshan">About R. Davi ...rs to a labor tax.<fn>This seems to be the way the word is used throughout Tanakh.&#160; In several places, a labor force is explicitly mentioned as part of
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  • ...21-1" data-aht="source">Tosafist MS Oxford 2343 (Tosafot HaShalem Bereshit 29:21:1)</a><a href="Baalei HaTosafot" data-aht="parshan">About Ba'alei HaTosa ...osef Bekhor Shor</a><a href="RYBSBereshit29-35" data-aht="source">Bereshit 29:35</a><a href="RYBSBereshit30-21" data-aht="source">Bereshit 30:21</a><a hr
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  • ...cretions. See, for example, <a href="Shemot29-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 29:14</a> and <a href="Vayikra4-11" data-aht="source">Vayikra 4:11</a>.</fn>&# ...>Ralbag</a><a href="RalbagShofetim3-12-29" data-aht="source">Shofetim 3:12-29</a><a href="RalbagShofetim3Toelet6" data-aht="source">Shofetim 3 Toelet 6</
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  • ...or differing literary genres. Even when two units do not overlap in time, Tanakh might prefer to arrange certain units thematically, grouping together simil <p>Tanakh will often prefer thematic ordering over strict chronology, juxtaposing rel
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  • <p>Rambam and Ralbag attempt to minimize the supernatural events of Tanakh, suggesting that Hashem attempts to preserve natural order as much as possi <p>The number of seemingly supernatural phenomena described in Tanakh is minimized, either by suggesting that the stories should not be read lite
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  • ...urce">Shemot 17 Questions</a><a href="AbarbanelShemot17" data-aht="source">Shemot 17</a><a href="AbarbanelDevarim25" data-aht="source">Devarim 25</a><a href= ...-aht="source">Shemot 1:15</a><a href="ShadalShemot17-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 17:14</a><a href="ShadalDevarim25-12" data-aht="source">Devarim 25:12</a><a
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  • ...ht="source">Shemot 7:25</a><a href="AbarbanelShemot10-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 10:1-2</a><a href="R. Yitzchak Abarbanel" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yitzc ...viewed by the Egyptians as a god.<fn>Tanchuma Vaera, Midrash Aggadah, and Shemot Rabbah similarly explain that Hashem chose to attack the Nile first for thi
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  • ...r Shor</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorDevarim29-28" data-aht="source">Devarim 29:28</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Bekh ...ed <b>them</b>..." ).&#160; Hoil Moshe explains that it is not unusual for Tanakh to switch from plural to singular and thus the reader need not learn that t
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  • ...source">R. S.R. Hirsch</a><a href="RSRHirschShemot23-19" data-aht="source">Shemot 23:19</a><a href="R. Samson Raphael Hirsch" data-aht="parshan">About R. Sam ...aht="source">R"Y Kara</a><a href="RYosefKaraShemot23-19" data-aht="source">Shemot 23:19</a><a href="R. Yosef Kara" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Kara</a>
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  • ...2" data-aht="source">Rashi</a><a href="RashiShemot17-12" data-aht="source">Shemot 17:12</a><a href="R. Shelomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)" data-aht="parshan">About R. <li><a href="Shemot1-10" data-aht="source">Shemot 1:10</a>&#160;("כִּי תִקְרֶאנָה מִלְחָמָה") –&#160
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  • <content>Commentaries on Bereshit and Shemot, Volumes on Ancient Near East and vs. Documentary Hypothesis, Editor of Enc <li>At the age of 29, he was appointed instructor of Bible and Jewish history at the rabbinical
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  • ...of Yefet b. Eli in MGWJ (1897): 205 and Aharon b. Eliyahu in Keter Torah, Shemot p. 143. Ibn Ezra in his Short Commentary cites this position in the name of ...e principle of "מידה כנגד מידה", or "just deserts", is a dominant motif in Tanakh.<fn>It should be noted, though, that many of these instances are with regar
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  • <content>Tanakh and Talmud commentaries</content> ...b>Biblical commentaries</b> – Rashbam wrote a commentary on most or all of Tanakh. See below regarding his Torah commentary. Commentaries of Rashbam on Tehil
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  • ...g to a day in which something ceased.&#160; See, for example, its usage in Shemot 15:25-25 or Vayikra 23:3, and the opinion below which takes this understand ...date.&#160; [The Karaite R. Aharon b. Yosef, in his comments to Shemot 18:29, asserts that the date of revelation is 3 Sivan, while the Samaritans comme
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  • ...ta-aht="source">Shemot 36:8</a><a href="RYBSShemot38-21" data-aht="source">Shemot 38:21</a><a href="RYBSVayikra2-13" data-aht="source">Vayikra 2:13</a><a hre ...aht="source">Shemot 29:46</a><a href="RambanShemot40-34" data-aht="source">Shemot 40:34</a><a href="RambanVayikraIntroduction" data-aht="source">Introduction
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  • ...ource">Ramban</a><a href="RambanVayikra27-29" data-aht="source">Vayikra 27:29</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="parshan">A ...a disjunctive and means "or" rather than "and".<fn>R. Yosef Kimchi brings Shemot 21:17, "וּמְקַלֵּל אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ", as another exa
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  • ...aht="source">Abarbanel</a><a href="AbarbanelShemot20-11" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:11</a><a href="AbarbanelVayikra26-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26:3</a>< ...Devarim 28</a> or&#160;<a href="Devarim29-21-27" data-aht="source">Devarim 29:21-27</a>.&#160; As these include agricultural blessings, promises of victo
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  • ...here was no sin in the union and hence no punishment. The story appears in Tanakh only as a reaction to mythological tales of gods coupling with humans to fo ...f="BereshitRabbatiBereshit6-2(pp29-31)" data-aht="source">Bereshit 6:2 (pp.29-31)</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbati" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbati
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  • ...ape of Dinah.&#160; He adores Rachel, yet he is one of the few husbands in Tanakh to explicitly rebuke his wife. How are we to understand these contrasting t ...source">Netziv</a><a href="NetzivBereshit29-31" data-aht="source">Bereshit 29:31</a><a href="R. Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv)" data-aht="parshan">A
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  • ...source">Bereshit 22:1</a><a href="RashbamShemot12-40-41" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:40-41</a><a href="R. Shemuel b. Meir (Rashbam)" data-aht="parshan">About ...15:13</a> (400 years) and&#160;<a href="Shemot12-40-41" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:40-41</a> (430 years). This position maintains that the 400 years starte
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  • ...f Hashem" in its last chapter.</fn>&#160; They are the only two leaders in Tanakh to merit the title.</li> ...r Moshe asks, "Who am I to go to Paroh" Hashem says, "I will be with you" (Shemot 3:12).&#160; Hashem echoes this encouragement to Yehoshua, telling him "As
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  • ...th the Givonites (Yehoshua 9), this is understood to be an honest mistake. Tanakh blames the people for not asking Hashem before breaking bread with them ("� ..."Shemot33-5-11" data-aht="source">Shemot 33:11</a>, <a href="Bemidbar11-26-29" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 11:28</a>, and <a href="Yehoshua1-1" data-aht="
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  • ...es</a></multilink> who maintains that all visions of an angel described in Tanakh (including this story) occurred in a dream or prophecy. For more, see <a hr ...Rashbam</a><a href="RashbamBereshit32-21" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32:21-29</a><a href="R. Shemuel b. Meir (Rashbam)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Shemu
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  • ...that the food was provided before the sale. See <a href="Grammar:Tenses in Tanakh" data-aht="page">Past Perfect</a>, though, that the form also sometimes mer ...:Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East" data-aht="page">Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</a>.</fn> However, Rashbam does not account for t
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  • ...ty with the contemporary usage of a word influences the way one interprets Tanakh, as one might not recognize that a word's definition might have evolved, be ...are several words whose meaning might have changed from one period within Tanakh to another:</p>
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  • ...a>, cited by C. Chavel as evidence that Ramban completed his commentary on Shemot after the age of seventy, may be a later addition to the commentary. If so, ...a href="Commentators:Ramban's Updates/Devarim#DEV11-29" data-aht="page">11:29</a>.</fn></li>
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  • ...Between Shemot and Devarim" data-aht="page">Decalogue Differences Between Shemot and Devarim</a> confidence before his reunion with&#160;<a href="Commentato ...es</a></multilink> who maintains that all visions of an angel described in Tanakh (including this story) occurred in a dream or prophecy. For more, see <a hr
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  • ...Between Shemot and Devarim" data-aht="page">Decalogue Differences Between Shemot and Devarim</a> confidence before his reunion with&#160;<a href="Commentato ...es</a></multilink> who maintains that all visions of an angel described in Tanakh (including this story) occurred in a dream or prophecy. For more, see <a hr
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  • ...aite</a></multilink>.&#160; Ibn Ezra dismisses the question by pointing to Shemot 11:10, which attributes all the wonders in Egypt to Moshe and Aharon, despi ...2.&#160; He also points to the phrase&#160;"וַיִּפְגְּשֵׁהוּ ה'&#8207;" in Shemot 4:24 as another example of Hashem "attending" a circumcision without any ac
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  • ...R. D"Z Hoffman</a><a href="RDavidZviHoffmannShemot20-20" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:20</a><a href="R. David Zvi Hoffmann" data-aht="parshan">About R. David ...ag</a><a href="RalbagMelakhimI18-26-29" data-aht="source">Melakhim I 18:26-29</a><a href="R. Levi b. Gershom (Ralbag, Gersonides)" data-aht="parshan">Abo
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  • <li><span class=link title="Professor of Tanakh, Bar Ilan University">Professor Yonatan Grossman</span></li> <li><span class=link title="Professor Emeritus of Tanakh, Haifa University">Professor Yeshayahu Maori ז"ל</span></li>
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  • ...">Ibn Ezra</a><a href="IbnEzraBereshit11-29" data-aht="source">Bereshit 11:29</a><a href="IbnEzraBereshit12-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 12:1</a><a href ...Chapter 11.<fn>For further discussion and other examples of achronology in Tanakh, see <a href="Chronological and Thematic Order" data-aht="page">Chronologic
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  • ...0" data-aht="source">Rashi</a><a href="RashiShemot24-10" data-aht="source">Shemot 24:10</a><a href="RashiVayikra10-1-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 10:1-3</a>< ...acle, it is possible that the brothers encountered it upon their entry.<fn>Shemot 40:35 records that when Hashem's glory filled the Tabernacle, even Moshe hi
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  • ...hips and emotional attachment.<fn>See, for instance, Bereshit 22:2, 25:28, 29:20 and 37:3, which describe Avraham's love of Yitzchak, Yitzchak and Rivka' ...ve of Hashem and observance.<fn>See <a href="Shemot20-5" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:5</a>, <a href="Devarim7-9" data-aht="source">Devarim 7:9</a>, <a href="
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  • <li><a title="Tanakh Department, Ma`ayanot Yeshiva High School, Teaneck, NJ, Adjunct Professor a ...="Rosh Batei Midrash and Academic Director of Matan and Senior Lecturer in Tanakh at Herzog College" href=#letter-Ziegler data-toggle=my-modal>ד"ר יעל �
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  • ...ommentary to Yonah (1992), Prof. D. Henshke, "למשמעו של ספר יונה", Megadim 29 (1998): 75-90, and many others.</fn></mekorot> <point><b>Comparison to Eliyahu</b> – The only other case in Tanakh in which a prophet appears to successfully effect change in the people is E
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