Founding God's Nation: Reading Exodus

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Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
About the Text
Introduction
PART ONE Out of Egypt: Slavery and Deliverance EXODUS 1–15
	1 Into the House of Bondage
	2 The Birth and Youth of the Liberator
	3 Moses Finds God and (Reluctantly) Accepts His Mission
	4 Egyptian Overtures: Hitting Bottom
	5 To Go Against Pharaoh:Ordering the Team
	6 The Contest with Egypt
	7 Exodus
	8 “Who Is Like You Among the Gods?”: The Lord, Egypt, and Israel at the Sea of Reeds
PART TWO From the Mountain: Covenant and Law EXODUS 15–23
	9 The Murmurings of Necessity
	10 “Is the Lord Among Us or Not?”: The Battlewith Amalek
	11 Jethro’s Visit: Justice and the Need for Law
	12 Covenant from the Mountain: A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation
	13 Principlesfor God’s New Nation
	14 Ordinances for God’s New Nation: Justice and the Civil Law
	15 Beyond Civil Law, Beyond Justice
PART THREE To the Tabernacle: Worship and Presence EXODUS 24–40
	16 Strange Goings-On:“Blood of the Covenant” and “Seeing God”
	17 “Let Them Make Me a Sanctuary”
	18 “That I May Dwell Among Them”: God’s Prime Ministers and the Tent of Meeting
	19 Beyond Animal Sacrifice: HumanArt, Divine Rest
	20 The Covenant on Trial: The Golden Calf
	21 The Forgiving God and the Glorious Moses
	22 The Completion(s) of the Tabernacle
EPILOGUE
Notes
Acknowledgments
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