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God, Pharaoh and Moses: Explaining the Lord’s Actions in the Exodus Plagues Narrative is unavailable, but you can change that!

The story of the Exodus from Egypt is of fundamental importance, both in the Old Testament and beyond. However, it also contains issues that are theologically problematic for readers, especially concerning the actions of God. Why does God send a series of plagues on Egypt? How do we understand the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart? What do the answers to these questions say about the character of God?...

then be to understand the various occurrences of that issue in its narrative context. Therefore, as regards the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart, one key difference in our approach to many of those mentioned earlier is that we will not be attempting to find ‘an answer’ to the question of who is causing the hardening. Instead we will be trying to understand how these references can be sensibly understood within the narrative of which they form a part. To put it another way, we will not be abstracting
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