Reading Questions for 2/9
Posted on January 18, 2006
You Bible reading for this week is the entire book of Exodus. Here are some questions that might help focus your reading:
Again, think about the role of women in this story, particularly in the first part of the Moses story. How do they function in the story?
What do you thnk of Moses as a leader? Why does God choose him?
How do you read all those plagues in Egypt--what is the literary function of that part of the story do you think?
Exodus introduces us to a new kind of narrative in the biblical text, a narrative that merges conventional story with normative text, or the law. How would you describe that merging? What is the effect of al that law on the story? On the people? On God for that matter?
Okay, the tabernacle....think about what Alter says about repetition and try to make some sense of the function of all that repeated detail. How does it function in this story?
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