Book of Exodus

Darkness”, Leroy Gardener critiques DreamWorks animated film claiming it to be a destructive force that targets the younger audience. Gardener gives an example of his own childhood, reminiscing on how Sunday school’s “curriculum consisted of a comic-book type children's magazine called The Bible Greats.” He goes on to compare The Bible Greats to that of D. C. Comics. He wrote that because of the “action packed, breath-taking artwork, I viewed them in the same manner as I viewed the exploits of…

Discuss the stories of Abraham and the Exodus. What origins do they signify? What are the social functions of these texts? Abram, later to be renamed by God Abraham, originated from Ur, which was considered to be a cultured and ancient city. Minimalist scholars believe this to be the origins of the Israelites were Canaanites. As we learn later on in the book of Joshua the Israelites were lead by Joshua on a conquest in Canaan. The reason for minimalists believing Canaan origins is due to…

cloud to separate and protect them from the pursuing Egyptians. The Egyptians were in darkness, but the Israelites had light. Exodus 14:19 “And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind…

He is the light of the world. These lights in all their majesty were simply little flames compared to the light they had before them. Some believe there is a strong possibility the Feast of Tabernacles also looks forward to His second coming. The Book of Zechariah clearly describes a future time when all nations will worship the King. The overall symbolism of the Feast of Tabernacles points to a future date when the Messiah establishes His kingdom on earth as predicted in Revelation 19 and…

Nyssan in The Life of Moses gives a synopsis of the life of Moses, which is primarily recorded in the book of Exodus. He argues that nothing dead can be in the presence of God, because “sandaled feet cannot ascend to that height where the light of truth is seen,” as only the living can ever be in the presence of the Lord. Nyssan argues that the presence of God is holy ground, which is the reason that Moses is commanded to take off his sandals in the presence of the burning bush. Nyssa goes on…

We must remember that we are in a spiritual exodus! Even though we already have “the tablets of the covenant,” we constantly and consistently fail because our nature is to “break the rules” (also called sin), but overall because we are not close to the Lord. When talking about being close to the Lord…

Throughout this class, I learned how to analyze cultures and compare them to what our culture is now. Going through the four different cultures, they have many similarities as well as differences. After forty years of wandering throughout Moab, the Israelites finally made it to their promise land. There were many battles to be fought to gain control over their land. They would regroup for more assaults on fortresses and cities. They established cities and made a land for themselves. But with the…

the period of the Judges begins. This was a time when Israel was governed by a series of very colorful judges as you will see. Then the period of the Judges comes to an end when Saul is anointed as the first king of Israel. JUDAH AND SIMEON So the book of Judges starts right off with killing. God tells Judah to go up and fight the Canaanites and Judah in turn asks his brother Simeon to come along. They killed 10,000 men but the strange thing is that when one fled named Adonibezek and they…

Option A 1. What event does the Jewish Passover recall and celebrate? The events that are recalled and celebrated by the Jewish people are the 10 plagues that God sent on the land of Egypt. The 10 Plagues are: the river Nile was turned into blood, Egypt was overrun by frogs, Dust turned into lice, a swarm of flies came to Egypt, All Egyptian livestock died, Egyptian got boils, The worst hailstorm in Egyptian history struck, A swarm of Locust at all the Egyptian’s crops, Egypt came into…

In the Bible, the stories of Exodus and Esther stand out due to the implicit parallels between the characters of Moses and Esther. Both Moses and Esther were born Jews and forced to assimilate into other cultures, both were thrust into positions of significant power over a population of people drastically different from themselves (Egyptian and Persian, respectively), and both were charged with the heavy task of freeing their people -- the Israelites / Jews -- from certain oppression and…