Review: Echoes of Exodus

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Isaiah 43.16, 18-19:

¹⁶ Thus says the Lord,
who makes a way in the sea,
a path in the mighty waters… 
¹⁸ Do not remember the former things,
or consider the things of old. 
¹⁹ I am about to do a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.

The exodus was God’s grand display of his mighty arm. He drowned the world’s greatest army, Egypt, in their own sea and rescued his people who had been their slaves for 400 years. Israel had been redeemed, and this language permeates both Testaments. However, I myself have missed most of these connections. The idea here is the same as that in Bryan Estelle’s Echoes of Exodus (review): show how the biblical writers incorporated exodus  imagery into their stories, psalms, and praises. But…

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