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Exodus Old and New: A Biblical Theology of Redemption (Essential Studies in Biblical Theology | ESBT) is unavailable, but you can change that!

With Israel’s exodus out of Egypt, God established a pattern to help us understand the salvation of all his people—Israel and the nations—through Jesus Christ. In Exodus Old and New, L. Michael Morales examines the key elements of three major redemption movements in Scripture: the exodus out of Egypt, the second exodus foretold by the prophets, and the new exodus accomplished by Jesus Christ. We...

More deeply, even Israel’s liberty is subsumed in Exodus under a broader and higher aim, namely the glory of God, expressed by the text as the “knowledge of Yahweh.” Why such knowledge needed to be published through the exodus deliverance relates to humanity’s condition of exile. As noted in chapter one, Genesis 1–11 narrates humanity’s ever-deepening alienation from God, described as an eastward progression away from God’s Edenic presence. Implicit within this presentation
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