Land of Goshen

This week we are going to discuss a man was born as a lowly slave. He was believed to have been born in Egypt, probably in the area named Goshen, in the northeast Nile delta. His father’s name was Nun. Nun was a slave like his fellow Hebrews. Nun’s son’s birth name was Hosea; today we know this slave by a name that was given to him by his mentor Moses. Nun’s son received his new name of “Joshua” from Moses that means “the Lord is Salvation”; Being born a Hebrew slave in Egypt meant that as a…

The Hellenistic worldview, however, does not believe God created man and woman, as they do not believe in God as the creator of all. Also, in Exodus from The Hebrew Bible, Lawall (2006) announces "I am the LORD your God Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves, You shall have no other gods beside ME" (p.65). In this scene from the Old Testament, God speaks these words to announce that his followers worship him only and not have any other gods who they believe in…

Hunger consumed you for this desire. Recently I took a course and pilgrimage in the Holy Land through my graduate program at the University of Notre Dame. One of the first things I fell in love with in the Holy Land was the food. It was a fresh and charmingly aromatic cuisine. After a few days in Israel, it was apparent that the first change people back home would notice in me was my expanded waistline…

The interactions between the main groups of characters in Exodus establish a relationship between God’s authority and the people’s resistance. At first glance it may appear that there are two cases of resistance. First, Pharaoh resists God directly, and second, the Israelites resist the Egyptians who enslave them. However, upon further inspection it is apparent that neither is truly resistance. In the final cases of Pharaoh not obeying God’s commands, God hardens his heart, essentially creating…