Tag Archives: Exodus

Exodus: Web-enabled Version

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

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Wise Women 3: Midwives

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

Medical Practitioners At the end of my previous post I suggested that wise women (in the Ancient Near East generally and in Israel in particular) often performed their services on occasions marked by liminality, the betwixt-and-between of important life passages. … Continue reading →

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Moses Talked Funny, but at Least He Might Have Been in His Right Mind

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Darrell Pursiful

Claude Mariottini has written a couple of interesting posts, pondering whether Moses had a cleft lip and/or was left-handed. The verdict on both questions is “not enough evidence,” but the reasoning process, and especially the midrashic material in Claude’s second … Continue reading →

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All the King's Horses: Conclusion?

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Darrell Pursiful

Having examined the evidence—what little there is—for military tactics in the Old Testament and comparing it to Robert Drews’ thesis in The End of the Bronze Age (Princeton University Press, 1995) that the shift from the Late Bronze Age to … Continue reading →

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All the King’s Horses: What a Bronze Age Military Expedition Might Look Like

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Darrell Pursiful

We’re continuing to look at military tactics described in biblical texts as an indicator for the end of the Bronze Age and thus a test for or against various proposals to revise the chronology of the ancient world. There are … Continue reading →

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Leadership Secrets of Jethro the Midianite

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

I’m supposed to take part in a leadership training event at church this Sunday. They want me to talk on the biblical and theological basis for lay ministry, and they’ve given me all of eight minutes in which to do … Continue reading →

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All in How You Look at It

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

How do you picture the Red Sea crossing from the book of Exodus? If you were making a movie about the Exodus, would the parting of the Red Sea (or “Sea of Reeds” if you prefer) look like something clearly … Continue reading →

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