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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...

temple. Interestingly, many scholars have come to view the high priest of Israel as a second Adam.28 The ground on which Adam and Eve walked was truly holy. God was present. He sanctified this first holy place. There God reigned, and Adam reigned under God. The garden was constituted a temple by God’s holy reign, and it was his holy realm: this was a theocracy.29 Theocracy entails the coalescence of God’s rule, reign, and realm. Here the cultic (religious worship along the vertical plane) intersects
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