Exodus and Its Afterlives (BA3008W)

Content

This unit will provide an examination of the book of Exodus, in light of various critical methods. Students will be introduced to the book’s historical and socio-political contexts, sources and editing, literary features, and transmission history. Attention will be given to the themes of oppression, exile, migration, wilderness, liberation, conquest, nationhood, holiness, and law. The afterlives of the Exodus tradition will be examined in historical and contemporary theology, ethics and politics.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

18 Points in BA - Old Testament

Pedagogy

lectures, discussion, tutorial

Indicative Bibliography

• Anderson, C.B. Ancient Laws and Contemporary Controversies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Bender, A. Israelites in Erin: Exodus, Revolution and the Irish Revival. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015.
• Brenner, A. and G.A. Yee, eds. Exodus and Deuteronomy. Texts@Contexts. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012.
• Coffey, J. Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Dozeman, Thomas B. Methods for Exodus. Methods in Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 2010
• Dozeman, T. B., C.A. Evans, and J.N. Lohr, eds. The Book of Exodus: Composition, Reception and Interpretation. SVT 164. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
• Glaude, E.S. Exodus! Religion, Race and Nation in Early Nineteenth Century Black America. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2000.
  
• Gorgone, S. and L. Mackowitz, eds. The Pertinence of Exodus: Philosophical Questions on the Contemporary Symbolism of the Biblical Story. Malaga: Vernon Press, 2019.
• Langston, S. Exodus through the Centuries. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
• Ngwa, K.N. Let my People Live: An Africana Reading of Exodus. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2022.
• Walzer, Michael. Exodus and Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 1985

Assessment