Tag: Exodus
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Noah and Biblical Abuse – Slavery
The Bible pictured above, displayed at the ‘Museum of the Bible’ in Washington D.C., was used to educate slaves. Cut out of it, were passages which might encourage rebellion – “There is no difference between .. slaves and free people .. you are all one in union with Christ Jesus”. (Gal. 3:28). Other passages, not […]
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Exodus – A God who Mugs and Kills People
Some people have a simple approach to the Bible. If you want to know what God is like, the Bible will tell you all you need to know. There’s a problem with this approach. On some occasions. what we’re told about God is unacceptably shocking. For example, he kills people. At a global level, in […]
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Exodus – God reveals his Name
God, in the story we’re told in Exodus 3:13-15, speaks to Moses from a bush “ablaze with fire, but not being consumed“, and tells him that he is “to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt“. Moses is not exactly ‘up for this’, and begins to think up a variety of reasons why the […]
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Exodus : the Birth of Moses
Genesis ended with the descendants of Abraham still not in possession of the promised land of Canaan. That story had told how famine forced their entry into Egypt to buy food, and how the presence there of family member Joseph, who had been made the Grand Vizier, led to their settling down comfortably in that […]
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‘Once Upon a Time’ (v) Egypt and the Sun
As I noted in my 1st post on this theme, the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament contains many echoes of far older, interesting and amusing creation myths, flood stories and epic poems which, because used to train scribes, were widely spread in location and time across the ancient near east. The Hebrew writers/editors used a number of […]
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