Category: Exodus
-
Christian Sabbath?
Many Christians today promote Sabbath-keeping as a spiritual discipline, a practice that helps us find rest in a busy world. But is the Sabbath commandment binding on Christians? What does the New Testament teach, and when did Sunday become known as the Christian Sabbath? In this issue, we explore the biblical foundations and the historical…
-
Funny How Time Flies … in Numbers!
It is easy to overlook because there are so few data points: the flow of time in Exodus through Deuteronomy. Here, I present an exercise that I like to include in teaching the book of Numbers, as it provides a clear picture of Israel’s journey and stay at Mount Sinai. It also strikingly illustrates and…
-
Tabernacle Furniture: What Does It Mean?
Most of the furnishings of the tabernacle are not hard to understand. But what is the meaning of the lampstand and of the so-called showbread or ‘bread of the presence’?
-
Out of Egypt
Where did the Israelites cross the Red Sea? Or did they? Perhaps it would be better to ask: What did they cross? Questions like these have been a puzzle for biblical scholars. For many today, however, all of this belongs to the realm of legend and myth; none of it happened, and there is therefore…