Tag: Moses
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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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Who Wrote the 1st 5 Books of the Bible? (ii)
In my previous post, I dealt with the E and J material in the Bible’s 1st 5 books. So how did the process of turning these into a national narrative begin? When the northern kingdom of Israel was destroyed, some of its E material was salvaged and used to complement the J material in the…
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Who Wrote the 1st 5 Books of the Bible? (i)
At one time, the answer to this would have been, Moses, but that can no longer be maintained. These 5 books are traditionally called either the Pentateuch or the “Law”, although laws are only a part, though a substantial one, of what they contain. The Hebrew name is “Torah”, which is broader, and means ‘teaching’…
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