Book Of Exodus Research Paper

Moses’ story is told in the Book of Exodus, but it starts in Genesis with the story of Abraham and his family with whom God makes a covenant. Many ask where the question where did Moses come from. However every incredible person has a story that starts somewhere and someplace Moses’ story started when he was born, it was the day when, according to the Egyptian astrologers, the liberator of the children of Israel was to be born. Since they did not know whether he would be of Jewish or Egyptian descent, all of the male children born that day, were ordered to get slaughtered by the King Pharaoh. On this very day Amram's wife, gave birth to her third child, a boy, Moses. From the moment he was born it was clear that he was to grow into a hero. Moses’ parents tried everything they could for the boy not to get into the hands of the pharaohs men. As her last resort she made a small, waterproof basket in which she put the child and set him down in the stream of the Nile. The pharaoh's wife saw the boy, picked him up and that is how Moses started his life as the pharaoh's son.

The Book of Exodus divides Moses' life into three periods of forty years each. The first

It is Moses who is the emissary and actor in each of God's miracles that lead to and through the Exodus. The figure of Moses plays a big part in the story of the Exodus. Speaking about Moses fixes the Exodus as an accomplishment of an strong individual. "Moses can accomplish such things," many people say. However this may be why the Haggadah doesn't talk about Moses. God alone is the redeemer of the Jewish people and all of humanity. Moses was great because he stayed with himself, completely, all to God's agenda. If we all now, commit ourselves in our own way, every one of us can be the change for God’s transformation of existence from the bondage of all that is dark, changing our world into a realm of