life depends. This God, as Israel witnesses, is indeed “wholly other,” but not in the one-dimensional way as some belated Barthians claim. The otherness of the God for Israel is like the otherness of mother, who valorizes in self-giving, self-forgetting ways, and who in holiness has God’s own life to live, completely without regard for Israel.9 This God must be praised, and Israel’s covenanting activity, already undertaken by Miriam and her sisters in Exod. 15:20–21, is to learn in lyrical, doxological,
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