Exodus Decoded

The overall theological message or themes seen throughout the book of Exodus can be divided into four major identities. These four consists of liberation, law, covenant, and presence . Based off of these four themes, it is seen that God is supreme over all of the nations, but in particular Israel is his people, and God will continue to preserve them by actions expressed and appropriated generation to generation . This is expressed as seeing God as a god of history who comes into being through…

The book of Exodus explains how the Jewish tradition has embraced pain, bondage, and sacrifice. Reading the story of Israel’s birth and struggle revealed that initially, the nation of Israel was a small nation (Fisher, 2014, p. 253). In light of the Israelites starting out with only seventy peoples, including families when they entered Egypt, they multiplied and became a great nation (Deffinbaugh, 2004). Also, after reading the story of Egypt bondage and exodus, and how the Lord used Moses in…

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…

In Exodus 33:12-16, a new side of Moses is visible where he is actively accepting his duty to be the mediator between God and His people. There is also a shift in Moses’ and God’s interaction. Moses begins taking more control of the conversation by professing his thoughts on the Israelites and how they should be lead. This shift extends to the fact that Moses is not just God’s hand picked spokesman to the people, but is now his faithful companion. In the beginning of this excerpt, Moses…

is that Moses was disqualified due to punishment by God for sin. Since Anisfeld does not believe the traditional view about Moses leading the people, he applies another approach using ten complaints of the people recorded in the scriptures found in Exodus and Numbers. From the…

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.…

In Chapter three and four of Exodus, Moses has an encounter with God. God appears before Moses in the form of a burning bush to give him a mission; he is to go to Egypt to talk to Pharaoh about releasing the Israelites from slavery in the land. This passage is significant, because it establishes the employing of Moses to speak for God to both the Pharaoh and the Israelites. The commission that Moses is given in this passage is what leads to the Exodus, the giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai, and the…

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…

did not only blamed God, but also Moses and Aaron for the harsh labor. “And they said to them, “The Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharoah and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us” (Exodus 5:21). This Plague was sufficient…