Ep. 46 - Proving You're on a Mission From
What and Where is this Story?
- The first story is spread over Exodus chapters 3 (verses 1, 6, 9-15) and 4 (verse 18)
- The second story is spread over the remaining parts of Exodus chapters 3 and 4
- These stories are two different versions of the first meeting between Moses and God
- Both meetings talk of how Moses can prove he has indeed been sent by God to save Hebrews
- Both stories are about the crisis of leadership in the Hebrew exlied community in Babylonia
Our Nehelamite Writer
- He wrote the first story, where God reluctantly, and in stages, shares his eternal name: Yahweh
- The meeting between Moses and God takes place on the mountain of God
- The story was later combined into the Burning Bush story
A New Exodus Writer
- A new Exodus writer wrote the second story, with God providing Moses with magic tricks to convince the Hebrew
- In this story, God appears ro Moses inside a burning bush
- This story was later combined with the previous one. In sequence, they clash
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