RELIGST 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Passover Seder, Hermeneutics, Consecration

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2B03
• Professor: Eileen Schuller

Document Summary

I am the lord your god who brought you out of the land of egypt, out of the house of slavery. Exodus 6th c. bce: exile in babylon and return to the land described as an exodus new exodus . New testament: death and resurrection of jesus: described in language of. Named the sons of jacob in chapter 1. In the story, they now have progeny (many children) but they are in the wrong land. Moses" birth is a foreshadowing of what will happen to the people of israel (saved from the water, just as israelites are saved by passing the red sea) Daughter of pharoah, attendants of pharoah"s daughter; her maid. They are named but not the king of egypt or the pharaoh or moses" mother. Women have a special knowledge or power in this. Women related to the leading male figure very explicitly are the ones that are remembered.