The burning bush : an investigation of form and meaning in Exodus 3 and 4
This Thesis aims at investigating the development and theological significance of the Burning Bush story. As a narrative in its present biblical setting, Ex. 3 and 4 constitutes a pivotal point in the tradition of the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. It serves as the basis for the subsequent miraculous works in Egypt, while it provides the clue for the understanding of the Mosaic involvement in the deliverance episode. The importance which Israelite tradition later came to attach to the Exodus Event, and its popularity among oppressed people of every generation have been contributory to my desire to examine more closely this 'Divine-human encounter' at the Burning Bush. Therefore to begin with I have first summoned the various textual evidences available on the subject for a thorough interrogation to see how the story has been reported and used since its assuming literary form. In this exercise which takes up Chapter 1, I discover divergences and discrepances among the various texts, which point to some sort of literary development of the story. On the basis of this finding in Chapter 1, I then try to put the question whether it is possible to trace and recover by any means what the form of the original story
Akao, John Osemeikhian
The burning bush : an investigation of form and meaning in Exodus 3 and 4. This Thesis aims at investigating the development and theological significance of the Burning Bush story. As a narrative in its present biblical setting, Ex. 3 and 4 constitutes a pivotal point in the tradition of the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. It serves as the basis for the subsequent miraculous works in Egypt, while it provides the clue for the understanding of the Mosaic involvement in the deliverance episode. The importance which Israelite tradition later came to attach to the Exodus Event, and its popularity among oppressed people of every generation have been contributory to my desire to examine more closely this 'Divine-human encounter' at the Burning Bush. Therefore to begin with I have first summoned the various textual evidences available on the subject for a thorough interrogation to see how the story has been reported and used since its assuming literary form. In this exercise which takes up Chapter 1, I discover divergences and discrepances among the various texts, which point to some sort of literary development of the story. On the basis of this finding in Chapter 1, I then try to put the question whether it is possible to trace and recover by any means what the form of the original story
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