So resounding is its message that echoes of the Exodus are heard
throughout the Old and New Testaments and the present. Exodus names
and terms permeate our biblical and liturgical vocabularies:
Pharaoh, Moses, Aaron, burning bush, I AM," plagues, Passover,
manna, Ten Commandments, forty days and forty nights, Ark of the
Covenant. The Exodus experience, indeed, is central to both Jewish
and Christian traditions. Exodus is, as Mark Smith reminds us, not
only an ancient text but also "today's story, calling readers to
work against oppression and to participate in a covenant
relationship with one another and God." With Smith as their
experienced guide, readers are able to march through this basic
book of the Bible with textual difficulties solved and stacked up
like a wall to their right and left, just as the Israelites
"marched on dry land through the midst of the sea with the water
like a wall to their right and to their left" (14:29). Undoubtedly,
when finished, readers will be closer to the Promised Land than
when they started.
"Mark S. Smith is Skirbal Professor of Bible and Ancient Near
Eastern Studies at New York University. He has served as visiting
professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. Smith
was elected vice president of the Catholic Biblical Association in
2009.""
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