Recounting the greatest event of divine salvation in the Old Testament, the book of Exodus is not merely a story about the Lord God rescuing enslaved Israelites from the power of a despotic and xenophobic dictator. More importantly, it highlights how a compassionate and justice-seeking God transforms the lives of victimized people so that they may experience life in all its fullness in his holy presence.
The story of Exodus illustrates an all-important paradigm for understanding the nature and goal of divine salvation, anticipating an even greater exodus that will come through Jesus Christ. Desmond Alexander grapples with the varied complexities of the carefully constructed literary collage of Exodus. As an integral part of the longer narrative that runs from Genesis to 2 Kings, Exodus recounts a dramatic and unified story of how the Israelites come to a deeper and closer relationship with the Lord God.
Narrating past events, Exodus speaks to contemporary society, revealing a God who passionately desires to draw people into an intimate and exclusive relationship with himself. This detailed commentary sheds light on one of the most influential books ever written.
Зміст
Editors’ preface ix
Author’s preface xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
1. The Exodus story 1
2. The literary context of Exodus 4
3. Exodus and the rest of the Old Testament 5
4. Exodus and the New Testament 6
5. The structure of Exodus 8
6. Authorship and date of composition 10
7. Source-oriented and discourse-oriented approaches 11
8. Exodus and history 16
9. The route of the exodus 30
10. The text of Exodus 30
11. Translating Exodus 32
Text and commentary 33
Bibliography 675
Index of Scripture references 725
Index of authors 747
Index of subjects 757
Про автора
Director of Postgraduate Studies, Union Theological College, Belfast. Author of From Paradise to Promised Land, From Eden to the New Jerusalem, The Servant King and Discovering Jesus. Co-editor of the IVP New Dictionary of Biblical Theology and the IVP Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch.
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