How to read Exodus
By: Tremper Longman III.
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Downers Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780830838585
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Exodus -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Reading Exodus with a strategy; title: Understanding the book of departure; title: Part II: Reading Exodus as literature; title: The shape of the book of Exodus; title: The narrative structure of Exodus : presence, covenant, and servitude; title: Part II: Reading Exodus as history in its historical context; title: Birth legends, Hammurabi, and portable shrines : the ancient near eastern background of Exodus; title: Evidence for the Exodus event; title: Does it matter whether the sea parted?; title: Part IV: Reading Exodus as God's story; title: God rescues Abraham's descendants from Egyptian bondage (Exodus 1:18); title: God gives Israel his law (Exodus 19:24); title: God instructs Israel to build the tabernacle (Exodus 25:40); title: Part V: Reading Exodus as a Christian; title: The Christian experience of Exodus; title: The role of law in the Christian life; title: The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us.