The Exodus Pattern in the Bible

by David Daube

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 07/08/2020

Overview

The exodus story—telling how the Lord delivered Israel from Pharaoh, and how Israel in consequence became the people of the Lord—set a pattern which determined the thinking of both Old and New Testament writers. Professor Daube shows how the authors of the story were influenced by the social laws of their time: for it was the right and duty of a strong and loyal man to redeem an enslaved kinsman, who would then owe allegiance to his rescuer. St. Paul takes over this model when he says that those made free from sin become servants to righteousness. Entire narratives are made to approximate to the pattern: it seems to be a factor in the story of Jacob and Laban, and it is very clearly seen in that of the Ark with the Philistines.

Professor Daube’s demonstration of the vitality of individual notions from the exodus story and of the general pattern is illuminating, and his exposition of the legal ideas underlying it is no less so. Methods of relative dating are discussed, arising out of the fact that a considerable number of these social laws have been transmitted in sources later than the exodus story itself.

Key Features

• Establishes the Exodus as the first great deliverance, which set the pattern for all the later liberations of the people of God
• Seeks to call attention to the social and legal affiliations of the pattern of Exodus, and to say something about their antecedents and effects
• Demonstrates how the authors of exodus story established a pattern, based on social rules of the time, that influenced the writings of both, Old and New Testament texts

Product Details

• Title: The Exodus Pattern in the Bible
• Author: David Daube
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 07/08/2020
• Pages: 94
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Resource ID: LLS:XDSPTTRNBBL
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2020-10-07T19:44:52Z

About David Daube

 

 

David Daube (1909-99) was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford University, and later Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.

David Daube (1909-99) was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford University, and later Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley' School of Law.