Founding God's nation : reading Exodus / Leon R. Kass.

In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, humanist scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself. Considered by some the most important book in the Hebrew Bible, Exodus te...

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Main Author: Kass, Leon (Author)
Other title:Reading Exodus
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Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2021]
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545 0 |a Leon R. Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago. His books include The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis. 
505 0 0 |g Part One  |t Out of Egypt: slavery and deliverance: Exodus 1-15 --  |t 1 Into the House of Bondage --  |t 2 The Birth and Youth of the Liberator --  |t 3 Moses Finds God and (Reluctantly) Accepts His Mission --  |t 4 Egyptian Overtures: Hitting Bottom --  |t 5 To Go Against Pharaoh: Ordering the Team --  |t 6 The Contest with Egypt --  |t 7 Exodus --  |t 8 "Who Is Like You Among the Gods?": The Lord, Egypt, and Israel at the Sea of Reeds --  |g Part 2  |t From the mountain: covenant and law: Exodus 15-23 -- --  |t 9 The Murmurings of Necessity --  |t 10 "Is the Lord Among Us or Not?": The Battle with Amalek --  |t 11 Jethro's Visit: Justice and the Need for Law --  |t 12 Covenant from the Mountain: A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation --  |t 13 Principles for God's New Nation --  |t 14 Ordinances for God's New Nation: Justice and the Civil Law --  |t 15 Beyond Civil Law, Beyond Justice --  |g Part Three  |t To the tabernacle: worship and presence: Exodus 24-40 --  |t 16 Strange Goings-On: "Blood of the Covenant" and "Seeing God" --  |t 17 "Let Them Make Me a Sanctuary" --  |t 18 "That I May Dwell Among Them": God's Prime Ministers and the Tent of Meeting --  |t 19 Beyond Animal Sacrifice: Human Art, Divine Rest --  |t 20 The Covenant on Trial: The Golden Calf --  |t 21 The Forgiving God and the Glorious Moses --  |t 22 The Completion(s) of the Tabernacle. 
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