“Redeem with the lamb every firstborn donkey.” This command comes through Moses at a time when a newly liberated Semitic peoples are fleeing from the Egyptian cosmology they’d been raised within for generations. The people, led by Moses, must re-establish a theology. I have read scholarship convincing enough to believe Moses’s murder of an Egyptian and [...]
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Exodus 13:13
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