A Royal Priesthood: Literary and Intertextual Perspectives on an Image of Israel in Exodus 19:6 (Biblia.com)

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This book examines the portrayal of Israel as a royal-priestly nation within Exodus and against the background of biblical and ancient Near Eastern thought. Central to the work is a literary study of Exodus 19:4–6 and a demonstration of the pivotal role these verses and their main image have within Exodus. This elective and honorific designation of Yahweh’s cherished people has a particular focus...

There are thus clear indications of an intertextuality between Exodus and Deuteronomy at this point, which may aid the interpretative task. To be sure, there is some difference in style, such as the Deuteronomic preference for עם for Israel, compared with the use of גוי in Exod. 19:6. Beyerlin draws attention to what he regards as a more significant contrast in content between the unconditional affirmations of the Deuteronomy passages and the ‘cultic-hortatory’ language of Exod. 19:5 with its emphatic

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