And You Shall Tell Your Son

Download or read book "And You Shall Tell Your Son-- " written by Yair Zakovitch and published by Hebrew University Magnes Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Exodus, the central event in the historiography of the Bible and in the collective memory of the biblical period, represents an historical watershed; it shapes the recounting of events both before and after it. In this book, the influence of the Exodus tradition on the ideological - literary shaping of the biblical historiography is investigated, with particular attention paid to such questions as: Why were the Israelites enslaved in Egypt? Why did the Exodus traditions take on such enormous dimensions in the Bible? How is this phenomenon related to the separatism promoted as ideal in the Hebrew Scriptures?