It underscores the degree to which this story is part of a literary genre, part of a literary convention, how much the Exodus story itself is very much a literary story.

它强调了这个故事作为文学类型的一种，一种文学的惯例，《出埃及记》本身有多大比例是一个文学故事呢？

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