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Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

The exodus—the story of God leading his chosen people out of slavery in Egypt—stands as a pivotal event in the Old Testament. But if you listen closely, you will hear echoes of this story of redemption all throughout God’s Word. Using music as a metaphor, the authors point us to the recurring theme of the exodus throughout the entire symphony of Scripture, shedding light on the Bible’s unified...

the person of Jesus, as if the latter could never have approved of, let alone commanded, the former. Others have gone further and argued that God simply never kills anybody for any reason, so every instance of violence in the Bible that implicates God should be seen as (a) incompatible with Jesus, and therefore (b) invented by ancient Israel.3 Seeing the extent to which the exodus story is echoed throughout Scripture, not least in the ministry and teaching of Jesus, exposes the fragile foundations
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