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Exodus (Apollos Old Testament Commentary Series, Volume 2) Hardcover – July 4, 2017

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Recounting the greatest event of divine salvation in the Old Testament, the book of Exodus is not merely a story about the Lord God rescuing enslaved Israelites from the power of a despotic and xenophobic dictator. More importantly, it highlights how a compassionate and justice-seeking God transforms the lives of victimized people so that they may experience life in all its fullness in his holy presence. This transformation involves a unique process that includes redemption, ransoming, cleansing, and consecration. The story of Exodus illustrates an all-important paradigm for understanding the nature and goal of divine salvation, anticipating an even greater exodus that will come through Jesus Christ. In this Apollos Old Testament Commentary volume, Desmond Alexander grapples with the many and varied complexities of the carefully constructed literary collage of Exodus. As an integral part of the longer narrative that runs from Genesis to 2 Kings, Exodus recounts a dramatic and unified story of how the Israelites come to a deep and close relationship with the Lord God. Narrating past events, Exodus speaks to contemporary society, revealing a God who passionately desires to draw people into an intimate and exclusive relationship with himself. This detailed commentary sheds fresh light on one of the most influential books ever written.

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July 4, 2017
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0830825029
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"Alexander's recent contribution to the understanding of the book of Exodus is very appreciated. It is a work of high quality and a must-own commentary for every preacher, teacher, and student of the Bible who wants to remain faithful to the original text of God’s Word in their theology."

-- Kolia Afamasaga, Andrews University Seminary Studies, Spring 2018

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T. Desmond Alexander is director of Postgraduate Studies at Union Theological College in Belfast. He is the author of From Paradise to the Promised Land, From Eden to the New Jerusalem, The Servant King and Discovering Jesus, and coeditor of the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology and the Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ IVP Academic (July 4, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 708 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0830825029
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0830825028
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 2.2 x 9 inches

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Dr T. Desmond Alexander is senior lecturer in Biblical Studies and director of postgraduate studies at Union Theological College, Belfast. He is a former chair of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research. Dr Desmond Alexander’s research interests lie primarily in two area: the Pentateuch and Biblical Theology. On the Pentateuch, he has authored and edited a variety of articles and books, most notably, Exodus (Apollos OT Commentary; London, 2017); Exodus (Teach the Text; Baker, 2016); From Paradise to the Promised Land: an Introduction to the Pentateuch (4th edition; Baker, 2022); Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch (co-editor) (Inter-Varsity Press, 2003). His commentary in the Teach the Text series (pp. 204; 2016) provides guidance on teaching the book of Exodus, dividing the book into 29 sections. His commentary in the Apollos series (pp. 784; 2017) provides a detailed explanation of the text of Exodus, engaging with contemporary scholarship. Having written explanatory notes on Genesis for the ESV and NIV Biblical Theology Study Bibles, he is currently researching and writing a more detailed commentary on Genesis. In the area of Biblical Theology, Dr Alexander’s expertise is recognized by his appointment as a general editor for the NIV Biblical Theology Study Bible and for a new series of biblical commentaries being published by Lexham Press under the general title, Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary. He was one of the main co-editors for The New Dictionary of Biblical Theology (Inter-Varsity Press, 2000), contributed the chapter on Biblical Theology to The Routledge Companion to Modern Christian Thought (London: Routledge, 2013), and has written three introductory books on Biblical Theology: From Eden to the New Jerusalem (Kregel, 2009); The City of God and the Goal of Creation (Crossway, 2018); Face to Face with God: a Biblical Theology of Christ as Priest and Mediator (IVP, 2022). He is chair of the Biblical Theology Study Group of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research.

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Toby

Not the best, but worth your time.

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2019

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This is a solid commentary on Exodus, and worth your time if you are studying the book and buying several commentaries on it. If you're buying one book, this is not it. The Apollos series in general is very good, but this is one of the weaker volumes, IMO. If you know your OT and the school this guy comes from, then you can predict 90% of what he has to say about any given portion of the text. Buy it for the other 10% that is insightful and occasionally brilliant. I'd give this 4 stars if he had kept his political views to himself. Why must English Bible commentators flaunt their liberal politics? Is there a virtue signalling quota they have to meet? They should stick to the history and languages of the ANE, where they actually have something useful to say.

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Jon

Up to date

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2019

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This has become one of my favorite commentaries on Exodus. I’ve been very impressed with the Apollos series so far. Its format is easy. Alexander is a solid author, and his research is up to date. And even though the volume comes off as more theologically conservative (disclaimer: I prefer that), he cites from the full spectrum of positions in regards to the literature on Exodus, which adds a rigor that I find lacking in many conservative commentaries. If the Apollos series continue to produce commentaries of this caliber, I believe it will quickly become one of the standard commentary series.

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CVI

Very thorough and up to date

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2021

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The background information on the book of Exodus is very interesting, and the arrangement of the commentary into translation, textual commentary and explanation was useful. I have especially enjoyed his critical ( very) use of the documentary hypothesis. I will definitely check out his other commentaries

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Chais

Excursus Locations

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2018

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This is an excellent commentary. Alexander explains things very well and has a lot of insight into the material. I had a little trouble finding the excursus material so I have put the locations below for the benefit of others.

“The Strengthening of Pharaoh’s Heart” (pp. 163–71; Kindle location 3945) and “The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread” (pp. 216(17)–22; Kindle location 5176).

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Simul iustus et peccator

The quality is such that I'm glad the commentary is as full as it is

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2017

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Dependable, insightful, and highly theological exegesis. The quality is such that I'm glad the commentary is as full as it is.

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Chita

A commentary on the text or critical scholarship?

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2019

This is one of my two mistakes I have made by buying commentaries immediately after their release.

If I am going to teach a Book of the Bible in a few months, I expect to get some help in seeing certain things from a commentary whose author has spent 5, 10, 15, 20 years on it but sadly, that is not often the case with many commentaries.

I read through Alexander’s “From Paradise to the Promised Land” and I wasn’t very impressed. He handled critical issues very well but when it came to surveying the teaching of the Pentateuch, he wasn’t as helpful or as insightful as Hamilton’s Handbook to the Pentateuch. Hamilton did a superb work on the text (literary sensitive) and its theological implications (in my view his survey is better than his commentary on Genesis).

I expected Alexander's Exodus to be better and a great Biblical-Theological commentary but I was wrong. He seems more concerned about answering questions raised by critical scholars than questions raised by the text itself. He mastered a lot of material on Exodus but he strikes me as not having much mastered the text and more importantly, been mastered by the text.

He did not so much make use of the modern literary methods and thus often missed many connections between Exodus and Genesis, and the rest of the Pentateuch. For example he does not pick up on how Exodus both looks backwards and forwards in the Moses birth narrative. One of my favorite texts is Exodus 32-34 because it is foundational to both OT theology and NT theology. He says very little about its influence in both Testaments. I expected to see his biblical-theological skill at this point but I was disappointed.

I look for literary theological exegesis in a commentary, inter-textual and intra-textual sensitivity. For me literary structure is critical to understanding the theological message of a book. He analyzes a few proposed structures of Exodus but he never offers his. This makes it difficult to see how he understands Exodus was put together or how it works. His explanation sections fell flat for me: they are not biblical theologically insightful and neither are they helpful in applying the text.

But since Alexander is a world expert on the Pentateuch his commentary is academically sound and moderately and wisely conservative. Therefore, it is good for some 'dry' academic or traditional exegetical work but the preacher or the literary-theological exegete needs to look elsewhere. It cannot compete with Fretheim (Int.), Stuart (NAC), Garrett (KEC), Bruckner (UBCS) or even Brueggmann’s little commentary in the NIB.

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