1 B. Childs, The Book of Exodus, Louisville 1974, 220–221; J. Wagenaar, Crossing the Sea of Reeds (Exod 13–14) and the Jordan (Josh 3–4), in M. Vervenne (ed.), Studies in the Book of Exodus, BETL 126, Leiden 1996, 464.

2 Wagenaar (s.o. Anm 1), 464; but cf. W. H. C. Propp, Exodus 1–18, Garden City 1999, 552.

3 Childs, Book of Exodus (s.o. Anm 1), 221–222; Wagenaar (s.o. Anm 1), 464.

4 Childs, Book of Exodus (s.o. Anm 1), 221–222. J. T. Walsh, From Egypt to Moab, CBQ 39, 1977, 29.

5 Childs, Book of Exodus (s.o. Anm 1), 220–21; Propp (s.o. Anm 2), 476–78, 481–82; Wagenaar (s.o. Anm 1), 464.

6 M. Noth, Exodus, Philadelphia 1962.

7 T. L. Thompson, The Origin Tradition of Ancient Israel, vol. 1, JSOTSup, 55, Sheffield 1987, 144–45.

8 Childs, Book of Exodus (s.o. Anm 1), 222–23. Thompson (s.o. Anm 7), 179, denies that any tradition connects any material with the wilderness wanderings before 15,22.

9 Propp (s.o. Anm 2), 508, summarizes the thorough linguistic studies; but cf. M. L. Brenner, The Song of the Sea, BZAW 195, Berlin 1991, 19.

10 B. Childs, A Traditio-historical study of the Reed Sea Tradition, VT 20, 1970, 410.

11 R. de Vaux, Early History of Israel, Philadelphia 1978, 373–75.

12 R. E. Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible? Englewood Cliffs 1987.

13 Childs, Traditio-historical study (s.o. Anm 10), 416.

14 Childs Traditio-historical study (s.o. Anm 10), 409; N. Snaith, Leviticus and Numbers, London 1967, 334.

15 G. I. Davies, The Way of the Wilderness, Society for Old Testament Study Monograph Series 5, Cambridge 1979, 47, 59.

16 F. M. Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, Cambridge 1973, 308.

17 Ibid., 308; G. I. Davies, Wilderness Wanderings, in D. N. Freedman (ed.), Anchor Bible Dictionary, Garden City 1992, vol. 6, 912.

18 G. I. Davies, The Wilderness Itineraries, Tyndale Bulletin 25, 1974, 70, 78.

19 Ibid., 78, 80.

20 Contra Davies, Way of the Wilderness (s.o. Anm 15), 59.

21 De Vaux (s.o. Anm 11), 377, 384.

22 Brenner (s.o. Anm 9), 89; the same is true for 15,22.

23 B. Batto, The Reed Sea, JBL 102, 1983, 27–35.

24 J. R. Huddlestun, Red Sea, in D. N. Freedman (ed.), Anchor Bible Dictionary, Garden City 1992, vol. 5, 633–42.

25 Batto (s.o. Anm 23), 30; Huddlestun (s.o. Anm 24), 635.

26 Propp (s.o. Anm 2), 487.

27 C. Krahmalkov, A Critique of Professor Goedicke's Exodus Theories, BAR 7.5, 1981, 52; Batto (s.o. Anm 23), 27; Walsh (s.o. Anm 4), 32. In the Genesis Apocryphon, column 21, yama simoka (<yam sûp) is the Gulf of Suez.

28 Huddlestun (s.o. Anm 24), 642.

29 Brenner (s.o. Anm 9), 89.

30 G. W. Coats, The Traditio-Historical Character of the Reed Sea Motif, VT 17, 1967, 258, 261.

31 Brenner (s.o. Anm 9), 89–90.

32 Ibid., 86.

33 Cross (s.o. Anm 14), Friedman (s.o. Anm 12); but cf. B. Gosse, Le texte d'Exode 15, 1–21 dans la rédaction Biblique, BZ 37, 1991, 264–71; and Brenner (s.o. Anm 9), 19, 175.

34 Thompson (s.o. Anm 7), 44.

35 Huddlestun (s.o. Anm 24), 635, 641; Batto (s.o. Anm 23), 31; Propp (s.o. Anm 2), 487.

36 Childs, Book of Exodus (s.o. Anm 1), 223; Propp (s.o. Anm 2), 559.

37 „Traditio-Historical Character,“ 264; cf. Propp (s.o. Anm 2), 560.

38 L. S. Hay, What Really Happened at the Sea of Reeds? JBL 83, 1964, 397–403.

39 G. W. Coats, „History and Theology in the Sea Tradition“ in The Moses Tradition, JSOTSup 161, Sheffield 1993, 45–56

40 Childs, Traditio-historical study (s.o. Anm 10), 414.

41 Coats, Traditio-Historical Character (s.o. Anm 30), 261, with the same ambiguity.

42 H.-J. Kraus, Gilgal, VT 1, 1951, 181–99; J. A. Soggin, Joshua, London 1972, 51–54; D. Daube, The Exodus Pattern in the Bible, London 1963, 11.

43 Wagenaar (s.o. Anm 1), 468.

44 Hay (s.o. Anm 38).

45 Batto (s.o. Anm 23), 35; Huddlestun (s.o. Anm 24), 641.

46 D. B. Redford, An Egyptological Perspective on the Exodus Narrative, in A. F. Rainey (ed.), Egypt, Israel, and Sinai, Tel Aviv 1987, 137–61, following A. H. Gardiner, The Geography of the Exodus, Recueil d'Etudes Egyptologiques Dediées á la Memoire de J.-F. Champollion, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Historiques et Philologiques 234, Paris 1922, 204, finds the Hyksos expulsion, a pervasive motif in the 1st millennium, to be at the root of the Exodus stories, and this is quite possible for some stage in the transmission.