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Description Dozeman examines Israel's changing views of divine power through an interpretation of plot and character in the Exodus story. He makes it clear that the exercise of divine power in holy war is not a static concept in Israel's theological reflection, but one open to critical evaluation and dynamic reformulation.
The destruction of the Egyptian army in the Book of Exodus is the primary story of salvation for Israel; God is the chief combatant in this story. "Yahweh is a warrior!" So goes the victory hymn in Exodus 15:3 after the annihilation of the enemy by Yahweh, marking the importance held by this show of divine power. This unleashing of divine power and its militaristic imagery has long caught the attention of scholars as starkly nationalistic.Thomas B. Dozeman furthers this study by addressing the theological problem of divine power in the Exodus story and, by extension, the Judeo-Christian attempt to deify nationalism by calling its warsholy. He interprets Exodus as liturgy, the Day of Yahweh, celebrating God's defeat of Pharaoh and the ultimate ascendancy of Israelite authority. This liturgy, though, did not remain static, but changed as the national experience of exile changed the practice of Israelite worship. An isolated event evolved into an extended account of salvation history, in which the life of faith becomes a wilderness march to the promised land. Dozeman traces how revisionary embellishments in the plot structureand characters of the Exodus story reflected the new understanding of divine power. By combining literary and historical interpretation this study offers the first serious inquiry into the idea ofdivine power, and makes a major contribution to resurgent research on the Pentateuch as a whole. No scholar concerned with biblical historiography and its justification of holy wars can afford to ignore this book.
Thomas B. Dozeman is professor of theology at the United Theology Seminary in Dayton. He has written extensively on the book of Exodus and the Pentateuch in general and is the author of God on the Mountain: A Study of Redaction, Theology and Canon in Exodus 19-24; God at War: Power in the Exodus Tradition; The Commentary on Numbers in the New Interpreters Bible; The Commentary on Exodus in the Eerdman's Critical Commentary Series; Holiness and Ministry: A Biblical Theology of Ordination, and, with Konrad Schmid, A Farewell to the Yahwist? The Interpretation of the Pentateuch in Contemporary Eu
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