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Year:
1991
Catalog number :
45-005443
ISBN:
978-965-7755-86-0
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144
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“And You Shall Tell Your Son...”

The Concept of the Exodus in the Bible

Synopsis
The Exodus, the central event in the historiography of the Bible and in the collective memory of the biblical period, represents an historical watershed; it shapes the recounting of events both before and after it. In this book, the influence of the Exodus tradition on the ideological – literary shaping of the biblical historiography is investigated, with particular attention paid to such questions as: Why were the Israelites enslaved in Egypt? Why did the Exodus traditions take on such enormous dimensions in the Bible? How is this phenomenon related to the separatism promoted as ideal in the Hebrew Scriptures?
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"While this book was published 30 years ago, it still provides many excellent exegetical and hermeneutical observations concerning the development of the exodus tradition in the Hebrew Bible and post-biblical literature. For anyone who wants to observe a model of inner-biblical interpretation put into practice, this book is a good starting point." - Andrew Bock, Hebrew Higher Education, 2021