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Exodus: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

From oppression to deliverance to intimacy with God, the storyline of Exodus influences the entire Bible. In Exodus the giver of the law, Moses, anticipates the fulfiller of the law, Jesus. This book is the linchpin for the story of salvation, and the key to the Old Testament understanding of God’s people and their life with him. H. Junia Pokrifka has combined both scholarship and creativity to...

In the book of Exodus, the solutions to these questions are found in God’s prior choice to be in covenant relationship with the descendants of Abraham (32:13–14), in the intercession by the covenant mediator who has God’s favor and friendship (32:11–14; 33:11–34:10), and in the establishment of true worship that includes a sacrificial system (the tabernacle). Moses’ intercession causes God to adjust the divine intentions or declared actions. The apparent invitation of human friends into the divine
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