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The first day of each month for the next two years we will be discussing John Goldingay\u2019s OT Theology: Israel\u2019s Gospel<\/a><\/em>, and we are now on chp 5, \u201cGod Delivered: The Exodus.\u201d So, here goes \u2026 and I hope you can manage to read this along with us. (Someone tell Goldingay to write shorter chapters.)
\nThis book is more like an OT survey in theological-narrative mode than a typical OT theology that is more shaped by a cross-section of ideas in the OT. (Goldingay calls it the First Testament.)
\nHere are the themes of this chap and each is broken into bits \u2014 but I\u2019m not going to type all of that in here: God who creates and delivers (where he argues that creation is assumed in the Exodus rather than creation being a later idea); who remembers; who works via people; who does signs and wonders; who insists; who reigns. And then he discusses how God is revealed, how God relates to foreign peoples, how God\u2019s resolve relates to human resolve and how God\u2019s act relates to the future. As you can see \u2026 stuff here is interesting; a thoroughly theological perspective on the Exodus.
\nSome highlights: \u201cCreation is only the First Testament of the First Testament of the First Testament\u201d (290). I spun on this one a few times, and still think he\u2019s got one too many \u201cFirst Testaments\u201d in the sentence. Creation \u2014 Exodus \u2014 Old Testament: are these the three instances of First Testament?
\nHe addresses particularism: Is God\u2019s work with Israel a choice not to work with other nations? Goldingay says no, because he thinks Israel is shaped missionally.
\n\u201cMoses is the boy who is available because he has a mother who thinks the sun shines out of his eyes and determines to do something about the situation, a spunky sister who is as good a liar as her people\u2019s midwives, and an adoptive mother who is a soft touch when she sees a baby (Ex 2:1-10)\u201d (308). If that idn\u2019t charming prose I don\u2019t know what is.
\n\u201cYhwh\u2019s signs thus do not observe the ethical priorities that modernity and postmodernity emphasize\u201d (321). I think Goldingay absolutely delights in poking the eyes of conventional viewpionts.
\nOn liberation theology\u2019s views of the Exodus: \u201cThe exodus does not take Israel from serfdom to the freedom of independence but from service from one lord to service of another\u201d (323). And once Israel escapes Egypt: \u201cNot only is it not over until it is over; it is not even over when it is over\u201d (324). Ah, John, now you sound like Yogi Berra.
\nGod reveals himself personally, in events, and in words. \u201cMoses asks after God\u2019s name so he can pass it on to the Israelites, and Yhwh responds by providing not a label but a theology\u201d (335). \u201cI will be who\/what I will be\u201d instead of \u201cI am who I am.\u201d God\u2019s theology is a theology of ongoing presence in promise to be who he is and what Israel needs.
\nGod\u2019s act of deliverance establishes God as One Who Delivers, which means God establishes a pattern for how God works \u2014 and it establishes a pattern for how God\u2019s people is to respond with gratitude and obedience and love.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"