ECHOES OF EXODUS

Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture

Alastair Roberts and Andrew Wilson

wheaton, illinois

Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture

Copyright © 2018 by Alastair Roberts and Andrew Wilson

Published by Crossway

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Cover image: Bridgeman Images

First printing 2018

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture reference marked NRSV is from The New Revised Standard Version. Copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Published by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.

All emphases in Scripture quotations have been added by the author.

Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-5798-9

ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-5801-6

PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-5799-6

Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-5800-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Roberts, Alastair, 1980– author.

Title: Echoes of Exodus : tracing themes of redemption through scripture / Alastair Roberts and Andrew Wilson.

Description: Wheaton : Crossway, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017012930 (print) | LCCN 2017054810 (ebook) | ISBN 9781433557996 (pdf) | ISBN 9781433558009 (mobi) | ISBN 9781433558016 (epub) | ISBN 9781433557989 (tp)

Subjects: LCSH: Exodus, The—Typology. | Liberty—Biblical teaching. | Redemption—Biblical teaching. | Bible—Theology.

Classification: LCC BS680.E9 (ebook) | LCC BS680.E9 R625 2018 (print) | DDC

220.6/4—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017012930

Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

For Derek Rishmawy and Matt Anderson

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prelude: Echoes of the Exodus

OVERTURE

1 A Musical Reading of Scripture

2 The First Supper (Matthew 26)

FIRST MOVEMENT: OUT OF THE HOUSE OF SLAVES

3 From the Bulrushes to the Bush (Exodus 1–3)

4 The Battle of the Gods (Exodus 4–15)

5 True Freedom (Exodus–Deuteronomy)

6 Journey’s End (Joshua 1–7)

SECOND MOVEMENT: THE EXODUS IN GENESIS

7 People of Rest (Genesis 6–9)

8 Russian Dolls (Genesis 10–15)

9 Just Like Us (Genesis 16–26)

10 Wrestling with God (Genesis 27–50)

THIRD MOVEMENT: THE REECHOING OF EXODUS

11 Wings of Refuge (Ruth)

12 The Capture of God (1 Samuel 1–7)

13 All about the House (1 Samuel 15–2 Samuel 24)

14 The End of the ...