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The God Who Makes Himself Known: The Missionary Heart of the Book of Exodus is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Lord’s commitment to make Himself known throughout the nations is the overarching missionary theme of the Bible and the central theological concern of Exodus. Ross Blackburn counters scholarly tendencies to fragment the text over theological difficulties by contending that Exodus should be read as a unified whole, and that an appreciation of its missionary theme in its canonical context is...

in which I believe the argument is appropriately considered. Using the term ‘mission’ positions the following argument in the wider discussion of biblical mission. Too often the concept of mission in the OT has either been generally denied, or the OT has been used as a short prologue to a discussion of biblical mission, which usually means mission according to the NT.3 Furthermore, many discussions of mission in the OT tend towards a focus on a handful of texts that appear to address more explicitly
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