Collins Chapter 5

Question 1

What are the two major themes of exodus?

Answer 1

Revelation of YHWH and liberation of Israel from slavery

Question 2

Describe the poem in Exodus 15

Answer 2

It is the oldest poetry in the Bible, It doesn’t specifically refer to the events of the exodus but instead a victory over Egypt.

Question 3

What story does Moses’s birth resemble?

Answer 3

The birth of Sargon

Question 4

Passover

Answer 4

Originally a springtime festival but developed into a national pilgrimage. The priestly author honors Passover as a celebration of the exodus

Question 5

Hyksos and Habiru

Answer 5

Two historical Semitic and west Asian groups loosely connected to the exodus story.

Question 6

What did the Hyksos do?

Answer 6

The Syrian Hyksos ruled Egypt which was later occupied by Rameses II.

Question 7

What did the Habiru do?

Answer 7

Habiru, a class of Semitic fugitives and marauders helped build Rameses’s II capital city

Question 8

What is the meaning of YHWH

Answer 8

Possible a causative “to be”

Question 9

Charter Myth

Answer 9

Authorizes and empowers present social life in terms of origins.

Question 10

What is important about the sea imagery?

Answer 10

It is a symbol of distress. Ugaritic and Hebrew psalmic literature invoke the theme of divine combat and triumph over the sea.