The Exodus - Theology notes

Exodus 1 Deliverance from Egypt - continuity from Genises. Joseph ending up in Egypt and inviting family. Boch of Genises ends with them in Egypt and it is not the promised land. We have Exodus to Wilderness to Entrance. From Sinai to the Promised land. Slavery in Egypt (does not take peace in a vacuum). It’s not simply to be free from slavery. Free in order to enter the promised land. Crossing the Red Sea (it is God who delivered them by stopping of the water and here it is God >call. The weight is on promise and gift and then surprising - arch beginning. Abraham - must die and for promise to be effected, must be handed over to son. Abraham challenged to give up son. With Sinai covenant in reverse, God calling son out of Egypt. It is God who delivers. Then from slavery “with mighty hand.” It is God who brought us out- this is the gift.(It was Israelites who left but they say it was God who brought them out. What is the Sinai Covenant? God is promises. “I will be your God and you my people”, but emphasis of the covenant is that men will commit themselves (gift and task is foundational to Israels’ faith). There is something very foundational about it. These paradigms - just like the three promises to Abraham respond to the desires we have and this desire to be liberated from slavery. Always from overview to general text. It is important to know the stories - three texts enclosed by test (past) to surrender oneself to future and reversal of this in the Sinai Covenants. Why do we have a formal engagement of God where each person is expected to be from God, not simply free of slavery. The motive is coming to the land. The engagement of each person in the covenant. The Exodus is narrated in the Credes as the paradigm of salvation. See David Daube, The Exodus Pattern in the Bible (Londro:Gaber +Faber 63). To exit and to leave is the simplest pattern, leave from oppressor and enter land of milk and honey (most general view of Exodus to leave slavery and to Exodus, also to have an intermediate stage. Bring out of slavery - Egypt stands for that. To bring to wilderness - parallel where does Abraham have experience - in the desert. Our faith is born in the desert. It does not stay there but it is something in the formation of faith. What is a concentric structure? You begin a story the way you end it (bringing you back to same theme). They thought a structure so they remembered seeing and hearing oppression. Repeating to intensify - to hold together what is being said. Luke 24 : 13-35, they left Jerusalem and they go to Jerusalem - beginning to end. Ask yourself what is in the middle? The middle is often intense, sometimes the extremities. When we notice there is repetition, it allows to see what is emphasized and what is different. It is harder to see difference than what is similar. Job - seven sons and three daughters. Job is not offering the sacrifice. In the beginning he offered, the end he pays not for his family but for his enemies. God brought them out from Egypt. God accompanied them in the desert and brought them into the promised land. Where as the Sinai Covenant is not a liberating what God has done. We commit ourselves a reference to the wilderness. Where did the Sinai Covenant take place? It was in the wilderness (gift and task), God’s deliverance to them. It is the liturgy reflecting the Sinai Covenant. To bring out of > lead through wilderness> to posses the land. Red Sea - two walls. Arch of the covenant into the water and can walk in dry land. Out of Egypt - ritual blood on altar and in all the people. Sinai Covenant is always going to emphasize commitment. Theology portion is To be continued with Intent of God………….