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Exodus (The Story of God Bible Commentary | SGBC)

Publisher:
, 2021
ISBN: 9780310490722
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Overview

A new commentary for today’s world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible’s grand story. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike.

Three easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God’s story:

  • LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible’s grand story
  • EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting
  • LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and students

Resource Experts
  • Emphasizes the historical distance between the Bible and contemporary culture
  • Encourages discussion of how the Bible’s story can be lived today
  • Examines each book in the context of God’s story

Top Highlights

“One other feature of verses 13 and 14, however, is significant even though it is not easily noticed in English translations. English style likes to avoid repetition, so the NIV, for example, alternates between ‘work’ and ‘labor.’ Hebrew, however, uses repetition for vivid effect and emphasis, and a single verbal root is repeated five times in these two verses—‘abad, both as a verb in the causative form (‘to force to work’), and as a noun (‘abodah; ‘work, labor, slavery’). Now, at one level, this piling up of the key word simply intensifies the whole tragic reality. It was unremitting and enforced hard labor.” (Page 58)

“Bearing God’s Name: Why Sinai Matters,14 Imes argues for a non-elliptical meaning of ‘bear the name of YHWH,’ on the analogy of the use of the same verb when the high priest bore the names of Israel on his breastpiece and bore the name of YHWH on his forehead. ‘Bearing the name’ meant representing the one(s) whose name(s) he bore. Accordingly, for Israel to ‘bear the name of the Lord’ meant to represent that God in the world of nations by living in accordance with his ways and commands. To bear the name of the Lord ‘in vain’ was to bring disgrace on the name of their God by their moral and missional failures.” (Page 366)

“This date, the month of the exodus, is to stand as the first and foremost2 month of the year—a new year for a new era, dated from the moment when Israel as a free nation was born.” (Page 236)

“A more likely rationale would be that Yahweh is the living God, and any carved statue is necessarily lifeless. Something that can do nothing is no image of the God who can do all things. The only legitimate image of God, therefore, is the one that God created in God’s own likeness—the living, thinking, working, speaking, relating human being (not even a human statue will do, but only the living person). Furthermore, a dumb statue is no match for the God who speaks (a point emphasized in Deut 4:12–20). It cannot challenge human sin and injustice with the living voice of God.” (Page 362)

Getting a story is about more than merely enjoying it. It means hearing it, understanding it, and above all, being impacted by it. This commentary series hopes that its readers not only hear and understand the story but are impacted by it to live in as Christian a way as possible. The editors and contributors set that table very well and open up the biblical story in ways that move us to act with sensitivity and understanding. That makes hearing the story as these authors tell it well worth the time. Well done.

—Darrell L. Bock, Dallas Theological Seminary

The Story of God Bible Commentary series invites readers to probe how the message of the text relates to our situations today. Engagingly readable, it not only explores the biblical text but offers a range of applications and interesting illustrations.

—Craig S. Keener, Asbury Theological Seminary

Christopher J. H. Wright (PhD, Cambridge) is international ministries director of the Langham Partnership, providing literature, scholarships, and preaching training for pastors in Majority World churches and seminaries. He has written many books including commentaries on Deuteronomy, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel, The Mission of God, Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit, Old Testament Ethics for the People of God, and Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament. An ordained priest in the Church of England, Chris spent five years teaching the Old Testament at Union Biblical Seminary in India, and thirteen years as academic dean and then principal of All Nations Christian College, an international training center for cross-cultural mission in England. He was chair of the Lausanne Theology Working Group from 2005-2011 and the chief architect of The Cape Town Commitment from the Third Lausanne Congress, 2010.

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