The Song of the Sea is a poem which appears in Exodus at Exodus 15:1b-18. According to the documentary hypothesis, it is a once independent text, that was embedded into the Jahwist source, and thus into the torah. The text simply describes the destruction of the Egyptian army at the red sea, and the future conquest of Canaan by the Israelites.

The date of the text is uncertain, and it may in fact be an original source for the more verbose tale that appears elsewhere in the text. The text also appears to have been included in the Elohist source, although after these texts were redacted together, only the first two lines of the Elohist copy remain, immediately after the lines from the Jahwist copy, the duplication being unnecessary.

External links

• Bible, English, King James, Documentary Hypothesis, JE source, Jahwist source, Song of the Sea
• A collection of articles on the Song of the sea from a Jewish perspective. at chabad.org

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