The Pilgrimage Pattern in ExodusUnderlying Exodus in its priestly redaction is a pilgrimage. Smith's new book starts by reviewing pilgrimage shrines, feasts and practices in ancient Israel. Next, it examines the two pilgrimage journeys in Exodus. In Exodus 1-15 Moses journeys to Mount Sinai, experiences God and receives his commission. In Exodus 16-40, Moses and the people together journey to Mount Sinai for the people's experience of God and their commission. Between lies Exodus 15, the fulcrum-point of the book: vv. 1-12 look back and vv. 13-18 look forward to Israel's journey to Sinai. Finally, the different meanings of torah in the book of Exodus are contrasted, and the book concludes with a consideration of Exodus's larger place in the Pentateuch. |
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Abbreviations | 12 |
INTRODUCTION | 15 |
LITURGICAL LIFE IN ANCIENT ISRAEL | 51 |
THE PRIESTLY ARRANGEMENT OF EXODUS | 143 |
LAW AND EXODUS IN CONTEXT | 263 |
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Aaron Aaronid Ancient Israel argued Baal Cycle Biblical Blum book of Exodus Canaanite Myth Chapter cherubs Christian chronological markers conflict context Covenant Code creation critics Cross cult cultic deity Deut deuteronomic deuteronomistic difficulties discussion divine presence Dozeman Egypt Egyptian Elohist Exod Exodus and Numbers experience expression final first Freedman Genesis God’s Hebrew Bible History holy idem identified influence Israelites Jerusalem Jewish journey Judaism king Knohl Levenson Levine Levitical Leviticus literary literature liturgical Milgrom Moberly Moses motif Mount Sinai mountain NJPS noted Numbers Old Testament older parallel passage Paul’s Pentateuch Pharaoh pilgrimage feasts plague poem present priestly material priestly narrative priestly redaction Priestly Source Psalm 23 redaction of Exodus reflects Rendtorff sacrifice sanctuary Scholars Press Seters Sheffield specifically story suggest Sukkot tabernacle tablets Temple texts theme theology theophany tion Torah Ugaritic verse Weinfeld wilderness Yahweh Zevit Zion
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Pilgrimage Pattern in Exodus Volume 239 of JSOTS Series Issue 239 of Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series Volume 239 of Jsot Supplement Series Volume 239 of The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| Author | Mark S. Smith |
| Contributor | Elizabeth Bloch-Smith |
| Publisher | A&C Black, 1997 |
| ISBN | 185075652X, 9781850756521 |
| Length | 355 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Biblical Studies / General Religion / Biblical Studies / Old Testament |
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