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Echoes of Exodus: Tracing a Biblical Motif is unavailable, but you can change that!

Israel’s exodus from Egypt is the Bible’s enduring emblem of deliverance. It is the archetypal anvil on which the scriptural language of deliverance is shaped. More than just an epic moment, the exodus shapes the telling of Israel’s and the church’s gospel. From the blasting furnace of Egypt, imagery pours forth. In the Song of Moses Yahweh overcomes the Egyptian army, sending them plummeting to...

Simply stated, intertextuality is the manner in which the various books of the Bible interact. In other words, authors in Scripture often allude to, cite, echo, comment on, and even at times “revise” or “accommodate” other scriptural texts.3 When studying a passage in the Bible that references another passage, we are given a window into an author’s understanding of the other scriptural texts, especially when metaphors are used. But the reader cannot be left out of the equation when it comes to understanding
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