I Have Built You an Exalted House

This close synchronic analysis of Exodus 1-2 looks at how the pericope''s structure, language, focalization and management of information form its conception and judgement of its events and characters. A coherence of concerns is detectable in Exodus 1-2 with allusions to Genesis and the later chapters of Exodus. One chapter is assigned to each of seven narrative unities and deals in various ways w...