Eisodus as Exodus: The Song of the Sea (Exod 15) Reconsidered
This study continues a line of inquiry from the author’s previous essay regarding the 12th century BCE battle traditions embedded in the Song of Deborah (Judg 5) as the basis for a nascent Exodus ideology surfacing in the Song of the Sea (Exod 15). Exod 15 is identified as developing an agrarian ide...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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Biblica
Year: 2011, Volume: 92, Issue: 3, Pages: 321-346 |
| Further subjects: | B
Exodus 15
B Song of the Sea B Exodus Ideology B Song of Deborah B Judges 5 B National Identity |
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| Summary: | This study continues a line of inquiry from the author’s previous essay regarding the 12th century BCE battle traditions embedded in the Song of Deborah (Judg 5) as the basis for a nascent Exodus ideology surfacing in the Song of the Sea (Exod 15). Exod 15 is identified as developing an agrarian ideal into a basis for national identity: Israel’s successful struggles against competing Canaanite military forces echoing earlier Egyptian imperial hegemony is liturgized into a myth where YHWH defeats the Egyptian foe and then settles his own sacred agrarian estate. |
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| ISSN: | 2385-2062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblica
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