Commentaries--Exodus

• Childs, OTL (1974)

• Hyatt, NCB (1971)

• Fretheim, Interpretation (1991)

• Brueggemann, New Interpreter’s Bible (1994)

• Durham, Word (1987)

4QExod a

• Qumran text from ca 100 BCE

• LXX 3rd c BCE

• Masoretic Text 100 CE

• Position of “And Joseph was in Egypt.”

• 70 vs 75 (Ephraim, Soutalaam-Edem, Taam; Manasseh, Machir-Galaad)

Outline of Book

• 1:1-19:2 Deliverance from Egypt; arrival at Sinai [Israel stays until Num 10:10!]

• 19-24; 32-34 Covenant--its breach and renewal

• 25-31; 35-40 Tabernacle

Exodus and…Creation!

• All the earth is mine

• my name shall be declared throughout the earth 9:16

• God works also through non-human agents

• the tabernacle as microcosm of creation

The Call of Moses in JE (in Midian)

• Who is this God?

• Who am I?

• People will not believe

• I have never been eloquent

• Send someone else!

The Reassurances of Yahweh

• Revelation of “Yahweh”

• I will be with you

• Three signs: rod-snake; leprous hand; water-blood

• I will be with your mouth

• Aaron selected

Meaning of the Name Yahweh

• “I am who I am”

• “He causes to be” = “he creates”: “El who creates the heavenly armies”? (El du Yahwi seba’ot; Yahweh for short)

• In the event of the Exodus we learned God’s name

• Yahweh--LORD--Jehovah--Pipi!

Exod 4:24-26

• Yahweh sought to kill him!

• Role of Moses

• Role of Zipporah

• You are a “bridegroom of blood”

• Jubilees: Prince Mastema sought to kill him!

The Call of Moses in P (in Egypt)

• God--El Shadday--Yahweh

• I will remember my covenant (cf. 2:24)

• I will redeem you

• the land of Canaan in which they were sojourning

• Ties to Genesis 17!

Exod 6/Gen 17

• Yahweh/El Shadday

• They were fruitful and multiplied (1:7)/I will make you fruitful….

• I established my covenant/I will establish….

• “I will be God--in the Exodus”/”I will be God--in land promise”

• Canaan-land of sojourning

Genealogy of Aaron!

• Purpose of this genealogy--tension with context, namely, call of Moses

• Aaron-Eleazar-Phinehas = high priests

• Ithamar ancestor of Levites

• Number of names are Egyptian: Moses, Aaron, Putiel, Phinehas