There they receive the law. In this book, Moses becomes the central character of the narrative. Etymologically, Moses in Hebrew is Moshe and is a play on words with the Hebrew mashah 'to draw out,' perhaps derivative of the Egyptian word for 'has been born'. He is the primal figure for ideas of any human savior.
Revelation is central to Exodus.
Significantly, what is revealed is always knowledge from beyond this world, from some form of transcendence . Judaism is a revealed religion, in contrast to a natural or nature religion, as paganism is generally considered. Assmann calls this distinction the Mosaic distinction and says that it is a function of mnemohistory, the study of the past as it is remembered and not the past as the amalgamation of facts. Mnemohistory credits Moses as the figure who draws the distinction between true and false religion, placing all that is not monotheistic in the space of paganism. Western monotheism and the Mosaic distinction which traces out its boundary are unique in that they institute a counter-religion that both remembers yet rejects the old religion, in this case the polytheism of Egypt.