Exodus and Deuteronomy

Contents

v ContEnts Texts @ Contexts Series Preface vii Abbreviations xiii Contributors xv Introduction xix Athalya Brenner Part one. Between Egypt and Canaan: To’s and Fro’s 1. How Liberating Is the Exodus and for Whom? Deconstructing Exodus Motifs in Scripture, Literature, and Life 3 Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan 2. Territory and Identity: The Beginnings and Beyond 29 Athalya Brenner 3. “God’s Perfectly Effected Purpose, or His Purposely Effected Neglect”: Exodus and Wilderness in Australia 39 Roland Boer 4. Pharaoh as a Character in Exodus 1–2: An Egyptian 55 Perspective Magdi S. Gendi 5. A Mixed Multitude: An African Reading of Exodus 12:38 67 David Tuesday Adamo 6. In Search of Children’s Agency: Reading Exodus from Sweden 79 Mikael Larsson 7. Longing for Egypt: Dissecting the Heart Enticed 95 Diana Lipton 8. The Relevance of the Jewish Passover for Christianity in Africa: 111 An Interpretation from a Community-Centered Perspective Solomon Olusola Ademiluka 9. Before Crossing the Jordan: The Telling and Retelling of the Exodus Narrative in African American History 123 Matthew J. M. Coomber vi Contents Part two Leadership: Moses and Miriam 10. The Birth, Early Life, and Commission of Moses: A Reading from Post-Handover Hong Kong 139 Sonia Kwok Wong 11. Miriam and Me 157 Naomi Graetz 12. Imaging Moses and Miriam Re-Imaged: Through the Empathic 169 Looking Glass of a Singaporean Peranakan Woman Angeline M. G. Song 13. What Would Moses Do? On Applying the Test of a False Prophet to the Current Climate Crisis 183 Joseph Ryan Kelly Part three Law 14. The Decalogue—Am I an Addressee? 197 Athalya Brenner 15. An Abominable and Perverted Alliance? Toward a Latin-American Queer Communitarian Reading of Deuteronomy 205 Fernando Candido da Silva 16. Terms of Endearment? The Desirable Female Captive (r)t tpy t#)) and Her Illicit Acquisition 237 Sandra Jacobs 17. Precious Memories: Rule of Law in Deuteronomy as Catalyst for Domestic Violence 258 Cheryl Kirk-Duggan 18. Debt and Interest in the Hebrew Bible: The Silently Indebted in Ancient Israel and Their Finnish Companions Today 289 Kari Latvus 19. Slavery and “Beyond Slavery”: Then Is Still Now 305 Mende Nazer with Bernadette J. Brooten Bibliography 318 Author Index 343 Scripture Index 347 Ancient Non-Biblical Sources Index 351 ...