The Pilgrimage Pattern in Exodus

✍ Scribed by Mark S. Smith

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 239
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Underlying Exodus in its priestly redaction is a pilgrimage. Smith's new book starts by reviewing pilgrimage shrines, feasts and practices in ancient Israel. Next, it examines the two pilgrimage journeys in Exodus. In Exodus 1-15 Moses journeys to Mount Sinai, experiences God and receives his commission. In Exodus 16-40, Moses and the people together journey to Mount Sinai for the people's experience of God and their commission. Between lies Exodus 15, the fulcrum-point of the book: vv. 1-12 look back and vv. 13-18 look forward to Israel's journey to Sinai. Finally, the different meanings of torah in the book of Exodus are contrasted, and the book concludes with a consideration of Exodus's larger place in the Pentateuch.

✦ Table of Contents

The Pilgrimage Pattern in Exodus......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 13
1. Presuppositions......Page 16
2. Law and the New Testament......Page 23
3. Toward a Christian Theology of Biblical Law......Page 29
4. This Study......Page 44
Part I: Liturgical Life in Ancient Israel......Page 52
1 Pilgrimage to Jerusalem......Page 53
1. Going on Pilgrimage......Page 57
2. The Pilgrimage Feasts......Page 61
3. Jerusalem......Page 74
1. The Courtyard......Page 82
2. The Temple Proper......Page 86
3. The Experience of God......Page 101
1. The Cosmos as a Stage of Conflict......Page 111
2. Genesis I and the Priestly Order of Creation......Page 113
3 Prayer: Postures, Gestures and Sacrifice......Page 119
1. Postures......Page 120
2. Gestures......Page 122
3. Sacrifices......Page 124
1. Pilgrimage Future......Page 128
2. Pilgrimage Present......Page 133
3. Pilgrimage Past......Page 139
Part II: The Priestly Arrangements of Exodus......Page 144
1. Source Criticism......Page 145
2. Redactional Theories......Page 153
3. The Older Material in the Book of Exodus......Page 156
4. The Priestly 'Source' and Priestly Redaction in Exodus......Page 160
5. The Question of Deuteronomistic Redaction in Exodus......Page 172
6. Literary Readings and Exodus......Page 177
1. Introduction......Page 181
2. Methodological Steps for Delineating the Priestly Redaction......Page 184
3. The Literary Arrangement of the Priestly Redaction......Page 191
2. Section B i: Moses' First Call and Confrontation with Pharaoh (Chapters 3.1–6.1)......Page 193
3. Section B i': Moses' Second Call and Yahweh's Confrontation with Pharaoh (Chapters 6.2–14.31)......Page 196
1. Introduction......Page 206
2. The Poetics between the Two Major Parts of the Song......Page 208
3. The Poem in the Context of the Book......Page 215
1. The Poem's Unity......Page 220
2. The Poem's Original Date and Setting......Page 223
1. Section A': Israel's Movement from Egypt to Midian (Chapters 15.22–18.27)......Page 228
2. Section B' i: Israel's First Covenant and the First Tablets (Chapters 19–31)......Page 233
3. Section B' i': Israel's Second Covenant and the Second Tablets (Chapters 32–40)......Page 249
Excursus: The Priestly Lines and the Production of Exodus......Page 258
Part III: Law and Exodus in Context......Page 264
1. The Theology of the Priestly Redaction Revisited......Page 265
2. Terms for Law in Exodus......Page 270
3. Different Concepts of Law in Exodus......Page 272
4. The Linkage of Law and Narrative......Page 278
1. Current Proposals......Page 286
2. Geography in Exodus and Numbers......Page 290
3. Chronology in Exodus and Numbers......Page 291
4. Relations between Exodus and Numbers......Page 299
5. Toward the Formation and the Form of the Pentateuch......Page 302
Bibliography......Page 310
Index of References......Page 337
Index of Authors......Page 351
Back Matter......Page 357