The Exodus

Give some examples of places where the movie closely follows the Biblical text and some examples of places where the movie makes changes from the Biblical text. The movie follows the biblical text in how it recreates events of importance that built to the freedom of the Hebrews. In the movie and the biblical text Moses was called by the flaming bush who was the lord telling him he must go and tell the Egyptians to free the Hebrews and he will guide and help him towards their freedom. Moses…

In The Known World by Edward P.Jones, Moses is revealed to be attuned to nature through a juxtaposition of his former slave status and his new slavelike obsession of earth. As the passage opens Moses's owner has died, so that means Moses is a free slave. His attunement to nature is then revealed when he continues to work the land even though he is free. “He was the only man in the realm slave or free to eat dirt,” meaning that the earth was the “only thing in his small life that meant as much…

When he was three months old, Moses was hidden in a basket set afloat in the Nile to escape Pharaoh's decree that all male Hebrew children be drowned; he was retrieved from the river by Pharaoh's daughter, Batyah, who raised him in the palace. At age 20, Moses fled Egypt after killing an Egyptian he saw beating a Jew and made his way to Midian, where he married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, and fathered two sons, Gershom and EliezerWhen he was three months old, Moses was hidden in a basket…

An Israelite’s Journal I cannot believe we escaped Egypt. I was sure I was going to die stacking bricks for Pharaoh’s tomb. How Moses convinced the Pharaoh to release us, I cannot fathom. Today was the most terrifying day of my life. Pharaoh sent out his men to retrieve us and enslave us again. We were hemmed by the Red Sea in front and the army behind. I, at the time, wondered what Moses would do because all he had done was cry out to G-d. Today I walked across the Red Sea on…

of writing that serve as great tools to examine and reflect upon two particular cultures are The Epic of Gilgamesh and the book of Exodus. The Epic of Gilgamesh reveals aspects of the political and social organization and about the view of death of the Mesopotamian culture while in Hebrew culture these aspects of organization and death are seen in the book of Exodus. The Epic of Gilgamesh…

Jaeyoung Jeon, “The Visit of Jethro (Exodus 18): Its Composition and Levitical Reworking”, Journal of Biblical Literature, 136.2, 2017, 289-306 According to Jaeyoung Jeon Exodus 18 contains redactions by a Levitical scribe/scribal group. He intends to prove this claim by discussing the narrative of Jethro’s visit and how it connects with Exodus 3-4. After that he plans to look at verses 8-11 of Exodus 18 to look at the possibility of a reworking by comparing its language with that of later…

Exodus 2:1-10 starts by talking about the birth of Moses. Moses was born to born to a couple of the tribe of Levi. The wife conceived and had a son and when she saw that it was a good baby, she hid him for 3 months. When she could no longer hide him, she sent her son down the river Nile in a basket to protect him. His sister watched as to see what would happen to the baby. She saved him by hiding him among the edge of the river to keep from being found. Before Moses was born, The Pharaoh…

Exodus Response God’s pursuit after the children of Israel is a genuine sign of His love for humanity. Every man or woman that God has chosen to use as a vessel to deliver His children out of bondage or harsh conditions has a never give up mentality. God displays his compassion for the children of Israel the moment He heard their cry (Exodus 2:23). In addition, God chose Moses and his brother Aaron to be the children of Israel’s deliver. He did not give them extra strength or wisdom, but God…

There is no reasonable reason to doubt the story and information the Exodus implies, but I do think the mix up of the movie and the bible of the plagues have some people confused and not knowing what to believe in the overall moral and details in the story. The movie did a good job, in some areas, of trying to get most of the information spot on as it does in the book. Since the book was written a long time ago and is a primary source, it may have a better and accurate outlook of the moral of…

I believe that the Hebrew Exodus happened the way the Bible told it. There is archeological evidence and especially textual evidence. The people and archeologist who say there was no Exodus weren’t basing their claims on evidence, but the fact that they didn’t find much. Finding and digging up artifacts from that time period is a very hard task. So just because they haven’t found any doesn’t mean it’s not out there. Some people say that for the two million Hebrews to have this march from…