The Controversy Of The Exodus

The Old Testament is the largest part of the bible nestled behind the leather binding in the front of the book. Unlike most books, told from one-person or even two this is comprised of multiple, some stories even having two different versions in another point of view; over time it has become a large collection of ancient texts written and re-written by different authors and editors over the many years. The stories show the ancient Israelites, they show the laws, and rituals, which make up their religion and the small embers, which will one day, turn to a flame that is Christianity. The Jewish people view these stories as collected in what they call the Torah, is the collection for what makes up their history and the promise that God gave to them, as well as their laws and what they worship today. For the Christians the Old Testament is still seen as sacred, but most place a stronger importance to the New Testament.

The biblical narrative derived for this composition origins from the gospel writings according to St. Luke in “The Holy Bible.” Within his writings, Luke recounts the Passover, Christ’s warning of the betrayal, and the night of the betrayal. On the night of the betrayal, he recounts Christ waking the sleeping disciples, Judas amongst them, explaining him rising to bestow a kiss onto Christ. St. Luke states: “And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near to Jesus to kiss him” (Luke 21:47). Giotto’s fresco directly becomes influenced from this scene, and becomes the point of action he creates within his biblical narrative fresco. His composition marks the beginning of the chaos that clouds Christ’s arrest; illustrating the powerful confrontation Christ and Judas are compelled into. While Christ is depicted unwavering in his pose and expression, Judas is rendered in a furious facial expression and stance. His face is inflated more so than Christ’s, illustrating the swelling of corruption beneath his physical features. He appears almost to gaze hatefully towards Christ, as his eyebrows become fused tightly together and appear to create a tension within his form. He pose is similar to an animalistic stance; he has one hand on Christ’s shoulder to draw him in nearer, while enclosing his long yellow cloak around his figure to envelop him within this grasp. By Judas’ expression and stance, Giotto depicts

The archeological or historical plausibility of the Hebrew Exodus being real is unfortunately slim. This question is very hard to answer because there is no known evidence or pottery found saying this happened. However Egypt did have slaves and there is proof of this. There is also proof that a group of people did leave egypt but we do not know for sure if it was the hebrews. It would be easier to prove that a group of people left a country then trying to prove that a whole river turned into blood or any of the other plagues. There is not really enough evidence showing that the plagues of Moses leading his people out of Egypt actually happened.

The first example that the Exodus didn’t happen as it said it happened is that the desert the Hebrews crossed, the Sinai, has no archeological evidence that they migrated through the desert. Also there was no record of Canaan ever receiving a massive increase in population. The population of Canaan at the time would have been around 50,000 to 100,000. People migrating for

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.

The word ‘covenant’ is, in the Old Testament, it is the Hebrew word ‘berith’ and is used

That was the ultimate result of that little meeting in the garden, but thanks be to God for the plan of salvation through His Son Jesus the Messiah. There is a lesson to be learned from this conflict in the garden; if a church has been affected by a systemic conflict, there is always room for conciliation with our Father in Heaven. We are never out of God’s grace so much that he won’t find a way to reconcile with us like he did with the entire world after sin entered the world.

The New Testament was formed by combing oral tradition and several other written sources. Contrary to popular belief, the Canon was not formed at the Council at Nicea (at least I thought that). Instead, the Bible was put together over the centuries as new texts were slowly added. This sparked great debate about which books were ok to be added and who decided which books. Out of this period came the discovery of the Gnostic books or Gnostic gospels. These books were inaccurate and portrayed Christ in an incorrect way. So the responsibility of those deciding on which books to use as Canon was to somehow decide which books preached differing gospels. This obviously gave them great power over what books were in the Bible, but also what the overall

In Genesis, God is often depicted in human form. This is, of course, long before the birth of Jesus and the beginning of the New Testament. There is evidence that he is physically there, rather than a mere illusion, in the story of Jacob wrestling with God (Gen32.24-30). Jacob is not subdued easily. He is able to remain in the fight until near daybreak when the stranger strikes his hip and dislocates it. This shows not God as some supreme being in the distance. Rather He is physically present, appearing in the same manner as every other human. He can be seen, touched, and battled with. It demystifies God, but it also makes these interactions very personal for those involved. This changes when we see Moses being called in Exodus. This shift in appearance highlights the duel nature of God as being both a protector and a punisher.

In Exodus 6:12, the Hebrew phrase “Poor Speaker” (NRSV), does not mean a physical speech disability in a literal sense, but rather it is used as a metaphor to describe Moses’ hesitation to speak to Pharaoh which was not only his own self-consciousness, but was also a product of Israelites disinclination towards him.

The following assignment is an analysis of the book of Exodus, chapter 3, verses 2-12. In this particular passage God calls on Moses to go back to Egypt and free the Israelites. In examination of Exodus 3:2-12, there are multiple aspects of this verse that should be studied. Below I have explained the importance of this passage to it’s original audience and it’s current audience. I have also illustrated its cultural-historical background, the literary genre and context of the passage, as well as highlighted keywords and phrases within the passage.

The idea of war is a subject that most people do not understand or want to understand. People tend to judge what they do not understand, and this is why war is looked upon as something that is a negative, even if it is for a good cause. When one reads the Old Testament it is filled with blood and harsh subjects to take in, but this is what mankind brought on it’s self when it sinned against a loving God. To look at the text of the Old Testament and reason through it on why would a loving God remove people from the face of the earth. In some cases He would wipeout a family including livestock, and in other incidence, he would destroy a people group, like the Canaanites where Israel was commanded to annihilate everything from treasures to their idols. To come to understand why would this loving God had so much justly anger at a world in sin is to look at the wars of the bible and see Gods good purpose for why these things came to be.

On the individual side of commentaries, I used the Brazos theological commentary on the bible exodus by Thomas Joseph White to analyze Ex 2:1-21. The main difference with The New Interpreter’s Bible is that this book seems to be solely focus on the events in exodus. Before the introduction we are given a set of series prefaces compose of acknowledgements and abbreviations to help us read the book. The organization of the book starts with an index named contents where we are given the number of chapters and subcategories of these chapters. In the chapter part we start with Introduction, then Deliverance from Egypt: Exodus 1-12, Wilderness: Exodus 13-18, Covenant: Exodus 19-24, Cultic Rituals: Exodus 25-31, and at last Fall and Eschatological Restoration: Exodus 32-40. The introduction is divided in three categories, the darkness and light of god, the division of the book of exodus, the four senses of scripture. These points summarize of the book literally. First the darkness and light of god, Mr. Joseph White argues that the dense dark aspects are often around us. Sometimes we get the idea that God has abandoned us. We may think so because we have always seen God as a God of dazzling brilliance (Rev. 21:11; Hebrews 12:29) and God in good times. However, this type of idea is challenged when one reads Exodus 20:21 " As the people stood in the distance, Moses approached the dark cloud where God was." Where the author of the commentary gives us a basic through line to understand

The Book of Exodus is told from the third person point of view, essentially as a narrative. However what makes this significant, is that it is so much more. The story contains elements of a narrative, but also historical content and matters of law. The beginning portion begins to tell of a story of Moses and his attempts to free the Israelites with the help of Yahweh and his powerful plagues. Within the story contains elements of truth, describing the actual enslavement of the Hebrews and their march to find the promised land. Even within that, certain Hebrew traditions and laws are established framework for a new society is created. Overall, Exodus is the story of how a nation was founded. It is because of this that I think the author of Exodus is rather authors. It seems that the Book of Exodus is a collection of differents writing rather than one singular work of a writer. Instead of being united by a common author like many of the other books of the Bible, Exodus is united under a common story containing elements of multiple different viewpoints. Although not abundant, Exodus does contain some figurative language. In a couple of instances, anthropomorphisms are used in relation to God, for he is immaterial and invisible. Only through the anthropomorphism does the reader get any idea of what he looks like. "So I will stretch out My hand…” (Exodus 3:20), “A blast from your nostrils and the waters piled high;” (Exodus 15:8), “Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen” (Exodus 33:23), all of these quotes are examples of prosopopoeia allowing the readers to get an idea of God’s form. Clearly it is something human related involving hands, nostrils, a back, and a face, but it is impossible to know for sure. The only physical renditions of God ever made or ever will be made were based of these anthropomorphisms and it is through them people are able to begin to under him physically. Tone in the Book of Exodus is rather unimportant because it is told from a third person point of view. It simply telling a story the story of the liberation of the Israelites to then the covenants made in the desert. Throughout the Book of Exodus, it becomes clear that Moses embodies the