Abraham’s sojourn in Egypt and the Joseph stories are logically subordinate.5 Likewise, the prophets of Israel so interpreted the captivity of Israel as requiring God to accomplish a second Exodus for His people (cf. Isa 51:9–11; Jer 23:7–8). Similarly the apostles interpreted the Christ-event as the deliverance of God’s Son from Egypt (Matt 2:15), the slaying of the passover Lamb (1 Cor 5:7) and the accomplishment of a greater Exodus (Luke 9:31, Greek text) resulting in the deliverance of God’s
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