Summary Of The Historical Setting Of Exodus 15 : 1-11

In the Old Testament, the Israelites were seen as people who failed to listen to God’s commandments. Despite knowing beforehand that they would be punished for their disobedience, they still continued to commit sin. God tried to deter their misbehavior by promising them many blessings, but it worked to no avail. Due to the insubordination of the Israelites, He made sure that the promises He made to them would be withheld and that they would face consequences.

Exodus is the second book of the Bible. Exodus follows after Jacob and his family arrived in Egypt and after Joseph died. After Joseph died the new Egyptian pharaoh began to realize that the Israelite population was on the rise and oppressed them by making them slaves. The story of Exodus follows the oppression of the Israelites, Rise of Moses, The Exodus, and Mount Sinai.

I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ “This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation. “Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to

Ramses the Pharaoh wouldn’t let the Israelites out of Egypt, so Moses stepped in and led the Israelites out of Egypt, which we know as the Exodus. If I were an Israelite, I would join Moses out of Egypt. I would do this because being a slave would mean being tortured. Moreover, Moses had powers from God, so it was save to be with him. He had the Ten Commandments, so people would know how to live their daily lives.

My primary source reading was the “Book of Exodus: Moses Leads the Hebrews from Egypt” found in the primary source reader in Launchpad. This primary source is known as a historian’s raw material. This source is written from the time of the event being studied which happens to be from 950-450 B.C.E. timeline. In summary, the Book of Exodus (2nd book of the Hebrew Torah and the Christian Old Testament) “recounts the escape of the Hebrew people from captivity in Egypt and their forty year journey through the desert to the promised land” (Launchpad). Specifically, this primary source looks at a passage that recounts the “climatic events of the Exodus, when the Hebrew people fled Egypt and later when Moses received the Covenant from God” (Launchpad).

The Hebrew Exodus has had people debating its plausibility for quite some time. From scholars to regular students, people have been trying to prove or disprove the Hebrew Exodus, either with facts or belief. Despite the strong evidence against the Exodus, many will choose to believe in it anyway. My personal belief of the Hebrew Exodus, is that it didn’t happen. It’s hard to believe the Exodus happened when the historical findings are non-existent. The Exodus events haven’t made it into recorded history, which was well kept by Egyptians, they also haven’t left anything to be found in the Sinai Desert, and has chronological errors.

He says that the Egyptians would mock the Israelites, laughing that their God would lead them out of their servitude only to face destruction at his own hands. Rather than respecting his power, they would see that he was either unable or unwilling to complete the salvation he set his people upon. And so the Lord agres to set aside his anger at the people, while Moses returns to them with God’s commandments.

But “God saving power brought the Israelites and us out of Egypt; God experienced by the the Israelites is made available to each participant at the Passover Feast through eating unleavened bread (bread without yeast)” (104). God works of signs and wonders soaring like an eagle above the “natural effect of Pharaonic oppression to bring judgment through the narrative flow of release to the Israelites” (104). “God stated the purpose moves beyond Israel’s liberation of freedom it was to bring the Egyptians to a point of knowing God is Lord of all in the earth” (104). “Israelite journey out of Egypt through God spectacles planned (15:17-22) is interrupted by an Egyptian change of mind; that navigates God divine necessitate to completed their escape by the Red Sea” (104). God parts the “Red Sea a scene grasp through kaleidoscope of images that are related to one another impressionistically: divine messengers, pillars of fire and cloud, alternating light and darkness, a strong east wind, the sea

In reading Exodus, I noticed two ways that God divided things. The first way God divides is by dividing the people of Israel from the rest of the world, specifically in this week’s reading from Egypt. The second divide is how he divided the Hebrew nation, before and after Exodus. God always had a special relationship with the Israelites, but he now has started telling them things they need to do such as Passover, Consecration of the First Born, and the Sabbath.

Exodus is the earliest text in the Old Testament that creates a new identity and sense of community to a group of people who had nothing. According to the Exodus there were a group of slaves who fled Egypt and where led by a prophet named Moses, who also is the proclaimed author of the book. These people where on a mission to find the promise land where they can be free from oppression and create their own civilization. These claims are true are still debated to this day, but the text was written around the 1400 B.C. Moses intentions for Exodus were to set laws for his new community to a group of people who had only knew lives as slaves.

Moses was a great leader of the Israelites. In the 1300s B.C.E., by the time of Moses, a large group of Abraham’s descendants were living in Egypt. The pharaoh was scared of their growth so he quickly put them into slavery. According to the Torah, God had told Moses “I will send you to the pharaoh, and you shall free my people.”, Moses went to the pharaoh, the Torah continues, and told him to let the Israelites go free, The pharaoh refused. Because of that God punished Egypt with ten terrible plagues. According to the Torah, the pharaoh quickly changed his mind, but when the Israelites left the Egyptians followed them and caught up with them at the sea of reeds. But Moses raised his staff and waters of the seas parted. The Israelites safely

The book of, Genesis and Exodus by the New King James version, tells the creation of nations and humans, to the freeing Israelites from Egypt. After the creation of the earth and people in Genesis God focuses on Abraham who once he carries out Gods commands is promised many descendants who will become the nation of Israel. In exodus just as Abraham was promised the nation of Israel was formed although Israelites suffer under the enslavement of the Egyptians God tells Moses to lead the cause of freeing Israelites from Egypt. Abraham and Moses are good citizens for god they both follow Gods requests and rules even when they do not completely agree or are sure of Gods demands.

An understanding of Israel’s history and geography is necessary for proper interpretation of the Old Testament. The Middle East provided the setting for the events recorded in the Old Testament, specifically Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Syria-Palestine. This area lies along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia up to the Persian Gulf. This area was the cradle of civilization and the scene of God 's activities as recorded in the Old Testament. The majority of the events take place in Palestine, the ancient land of Canaan, though at times the Israelites lived in Egypt and Babylon. This is

God stripped Moses as well as Aaron of their eventual access to the Promised Land. Their crimes: disobeying orders and taking credit for God’s miracle. If we look back throughout Moses’ story, it can be suggested that he was forced into his position as a prophet by God when he appeared as a burning bush. Moses did all of the labor on behalf of God, and played middle man between God and the Israelites, who complained about each other to him, for forty long years in the desert! A previous time, Moses did bash his staff into a rock and received water without any repercussions from God. There is no way to really know, but it sounds like Moses was frustrated, forgot himself, and as a result was robbed by God of the paradise he had worked hard for and was promised. The Israelites were also robbed of their promise of living in the Promised Land. Their crimes: lying to Moses and by extension God, and complaining. Of the twelve scouts sent to explore the land, ten lied about the conditions and died from a plague. Because the Israelites complained about God so much, God denied them access to the

If people follow 15:1 -29 Jerusalem they will learn that following the ways they set, and go by will keep things flowing smoothly. When rules are set into place they are there for a good reason and many people believe in them. After years people remain safe by following the rules and the people begin to believe in them as well. It is the same as with God and the bible. People read the bible, follow his word, and believe and things in life become more clear and simple. All God wants is for people to be happy and enjoy life as well as each other. When we believe in God good things will happen for us in life. Another import lesson from the passage is that when in doubt regarding a situation always turn to God.