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The Book Of Exodus Chapter 20-23

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This paper will focus on the book of Exodus, chapter 20-23 and it will be discussing the social roles, economic situations and valuation of women in these chapters. It will be discussing the different type of laws which have been made to observe the covenant. It will furthermore be discussing the concerns related to the interaction of social and economic context of these texts, the foundational beliefs hidden in them, and the way in which it shows the differences and similarities in the way in which women have been portrayed in extra-biblical text in the Ancient Near Eastern History.
INTRODUCTION
The book of exodus is divided in to two main parts; A first part tells the story of God’s rescue of people of Israel from Egypt and his bringing them to mount Sinai (Chaps. 1-19), and a second part describes his covenant with them, made as they encamped at mount Sinai (Chaps. 20-40). Exodus is a book which talks about the rescue from human bondages and bondage from sins. The text of the book of Exodus is on the whole rather well preserved in the Masoretic tradition. Moses spent almost thirty nine years to write Exodus. We can reasonably think that he wrote this book for the second postexodus generation, the ones who were preparing themselves to enter the promise land. There are basically six themes which exodus talks about: Bondage-Deliverer-The Law-Sacrifice-The Tabernacle-Presence-Continuation-Anticipation. In this paper we will be discussing about the laws which was made to

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