This book is an examination of the evolution of Israel's central tradition – faith in God through experience of God as Israel's redeemer from bondage. The events in Exodus formed Israel's religious and national consciousness throughout subsequent generations. Using not only the narrative of Exodus, but also a comparison of Hellenistic, Apocryphal, Pseudepigraphical and Midrashic source...
Most often, however, the Exodus from Egypt is employed in passages of rebuke. These can take many forms, but two basic types can be discerned: those which argue that the deliverance which the LORD granted His people when He brought them out of Egypt imposes upon them an obligation to keep faith with Him, and those which stress that when the LORD performed these acts of deliverance in ancient times He undertook to save His people thenceforth and forever. The lengthy prose sermon of Deut 4:32-40 b...
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