Founding God's nation : reading Exodus /
In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, humanist scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself. Considered by some the most important book in the Hebrew Bible, Exodus te...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One Out of Egypt: slavery and deliverance: Exodus 1-15
- 1 Into the House of Bondage
- 2 The Birth and Youth of the Liberator
- 3 Moses Finds God and (Reluctantly) Accepts His Mission
- 4 Egyptian Overtures: Hitting Bottom
- 5 To Go Against Pharaoh: Ordering the Team
- 6 The Contest with Egypt
- 7 Exodus
- 8 "Who Is Like You Among the Gods?": The Lord, Egypt, and Israel at the Sea of Reeds
- Part 2 From the mountain: covenant and law: Exodus 15-23
- 9 The Murmurings of Necessity
- 10 "Is the Lord Among Us or Not?": The Battle with Amalek
- 11 Jethro's Visit: Justice and the Need for Law
- 12 Covenant from the Mountain: A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation
- 13 Principles for God's New Nation
- 14 Ordinances for God's New Nation: Justice and the Civil Law
- 15 Beyond Civil Law, Beyond Justice
- Part Three To the tabernacle: worship and presence: Exodus 24-40
- 16 Strange Goings-On: "Blood of the Covenant" and "Seeing God"
- 17 "Let Them Make Me a Sanctuary"
- 18 "That I May Dwell Among Them": God's Prime Ministers and the Tent of Meeting
- 19 Beyond Animal Sacrifice: Human Art, Divine Rest
- 20 The Covenant on Trial: The Golden Calf
- 21 The Forgiving God and the Glorious Moses
- 22 The Completion(s) of the Tabernacle.