Exodus: Volume 3

So resounding is its message that echoes of the Exodus are heard throughout the Old and New Testaments and the present. Exodus names and terms permeate our biblical and liturgical vocabularies: Pharaoh, Moses, Aaron, burning bush, I AM, plagues, Passover, manna, Ten Commandments, forty days and forty nights, Ark of the Covenant. The Exodus experience, indeed, is central to both Jewish and Christian traditions. Exodus is, as Mark Smith reminds us, not only an ancient text but also today's story, calling readers to work against oppression and to participate in a covenant relationship with one another and God. With Smith as their experienced guide, readers are able to march through this basic book of the Bible with textual difficulties solved and stacked up like a wall to their right and left, just as the Israelites marched on dry land through the midst of the sea with the water like a wall to their right and to their left (14:29). Undoubtedly, when finished, readers will be closer to the Promised Land than when they started.

Author: Mark S. Smith
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 05/01/2011
Pages: 146
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.08w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780814628379

About the Author
Smith, Mark S.: - Mark S. Smith is professor of Bible and ancient Near Eastern studies at New York University. Previously he taught at Yale University, Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, and Saint Paul Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Author or co-author of eighteen books, he is past president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America.

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