CHS1 - Midterms (Part 1)

narrates Israel's faith that God delivered them from a life of servitude in Egypt.

asserts that God sided with the oppressed Hebrews and fought against the Egyptians

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store cities for Pharaoh

Hebrew midwives

saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it, son Moses

fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, Reuel gave Zipporah in marriage, 80 years old

a land flowing with milk and honey

father-in-law of Moses, priest of Midian

mountain of God

firstborn son of the Lord

“bridegroom of blood”

on the 10th day of this month each man is to take a lamb, a lasting ordinance, Passover lamb

In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day

length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt

not just the ordinary story of wars, population movement, cultural advance or decline, it is the disclosure of God's activity in events (Israel's perspective)

who sides with the oppressed in their struggle for liberation

stated in a crucial historical experience that created a self-conscious history (exodus) and event so decisive that earlier happenings and consequent experiences were seen in its light.

God's serves us, decisive event

requisite for any nation to have peace and security

invites resentment and rebellion

one of the two Hebrew midwives who delivered the children of the Israelites during Egyptian servitude

disobeyed Pharaoh’s command and did not kill the Israelite male newborns

becomes a shepherd falls in love with Zipporah, marries her and grows adjusted to life in Midian

eldest son and middle child of Tochered, younger brother of Miriam and older brother of Aaron

tritagonist/tochered's daughter/Moses and Aaron's older sister

main antagonist/adoptive brother and former best friend of Moses who runs away from Egypt after accidentally killing a guard who was abusing a slave

wife of Moses/daughter of Reuel/Jethro.

priest of Midian of the Kenite clan whom Moses took refuge/father of Tzipporah/father-in-law of Moses

engaged in pastoral pursuits, caravan trading, banditry

tochered and her children Miriam, Aaron and Moses (baby) quickly move to the Nile where tortured sings a lullaby to Moses and leaves him in Miriam, they settled in the Goshen

location where Moses and addresses the 10 commandments other freeing his people with the help of God

served to create one people with a common way of life enforced through regulations and traditions

showed Israel to be aware of the condition of the covenant – keeping the law

refer to many other different groups of wandering people not belonging to any socio-political org, descendants of Abraham

God called his own; group leaving Egypt. lacked unity and common identity, composed of former slaves and peasants, when the people after three days of journey found only bitter water

"a decree and a law"

Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Numbers

solemn agreement between parties/way people understand their relationship with God.

agreement between much more superior party who has the power and means to grant all the promises of the covenant, blessings of being God’s “treasured possession” out of all the nations

Jesus refocused the too legalistic understanding of the Jews in his time

recognized the centrality of justice in the law. The poor, the orphans and widows, the strangers are given a special favor in the law

believe that the Ten commandments contain the high ethical standard that we ought to observe

most powerful army at that time

praised the God of history

instilled fear in the hearts of the people when they reported advantages of the people living in the land and their inferiority