Book of Exodus

Exodus, the 1960 film based on Leon Uris’ novel, is a dramatic retelling of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. In his article “Rereading Leon Uris’ ‘Exodus’: a disquieting experience”, Alan Elsner quotes David Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel: “As a literary work, [Exodus] isn’t much. But as a piece of propaganda, it’s the greatest thing ever written about Israel.” In order to support this assessment, I will prove that Exodus has negligible rhetorical value and functions…

king says that if you were born as a Hebrew that you must be drowned at birth. There was also slavery that was going on so they had to deal with that." People believe that Moses was not real and that in the book of Torah that the word god is not in it." (Joseph Telushkin) There was a lot of conflicts but, it is basically a life summary of Moses and how he was raised and what he did with his life. There are too many…

great events of the Passover also the Exodus with Moses, as well as all the Hebrew people who escaped from slavery in Egypt at the hand of their Redeemer God. Likewise, in the Wilderness of Sinai, Moses took his assistant Joshua with him when he went into the mountain to talk with God (Exodus 24:13, NLT). As Moses’ servant, Joshua would remain at the tabernacle as his representative while the leader left the camp to fellowship with the Lord (Exodus 33:11,…

in the desert, God gave the Israelites manna as a daily food in order to feed them and sustain them during those years. Manna was the bread from heaven that God has given the Israelites to help them on the journey from Egypt to Canaan. In the book of Exodus, the Israelites received the manna every morning during their time in the wilderness (Ex 16: 13-14). When the Israelites saw it they asked, “What is it?” (Ex 16:15a RSVCE) In Hebrew, manna comes from man (what) and hu (it) which means…

went to Canaan through the leadership of Moses, but they make an important stop at Sinai, where they received the Law. To Canaan’s period took around 40 years (1290-1250) and it is described in Exodus 12-40, the books of Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua. During this period, we can see the exodus of Israel through the leadership of Moses, the covenant, the pilgrimage of Israel through the desert, the leadership of Joshua and the conquest of Canaan by the twelve tribes. Moses was an…

result of killing an Egyptian. Moses married, became a shepherd and disconnected from his home and family in Egypt. While Moses tended the flock God called Moses from a burning bush and commissioned him to lead the people of Israel out of bondage. In Exodus 3:2 “There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush.” Moses reclaimed by God to liberate and rescue Israel. A third period in Moses’s life which I thought to be fascinating is just before his death he…

Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest written epic in history, written in 2700 BC, in cuneiform, on clay tablets, found in the library in Nineveh, describes the king of the city state of Uruk’s love of his friend Enkidu and his quest for immortality. The Book of Exodus, written in 1400 BC describes God’s call of Moses, a Hebrew raised in Ramses II’s court in Egypt, to lead the enslaved Hebrews out of bondage in Egypt, to the Promised Land in Canaan. Gilgamesh and Moses function as heroes in these two…

Upon inspection of Exodus and the studying of Egyptian theology, one can draw many lines connecting the two. The primary connection is that of an attack on the gods of Egypt. There are a few varying views on the way that they are connected, but whichever way one decides upon, the connections are obvious. The plagues and Exodus in general can teach a great deal about God’s sovereignty and about being spiritual underdogs in a pluralistic world. While researching the ten plagues and Egyptian…

leader is that? God had been planning the Exodus since long before Moses came into existence and He knew He wanted to use Moses to carry out the task.…

Leviticus The book in the Pentateuch that I choose to write on is Leviticus. This is the third book of the Bible in the Old Testament, and was originally called the Third Book of Moses. It is easy to assume that the genre for book of Leviticus to be law, but it is in fact a book detailing the history of the Israelites the first year after the exodus. The authorship for this book is not specifically named but is strongly inferred to be Moses, due to the original title and the fact that…