The story of the Red Sea as a theological framework of interpretation

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ID12857932
AuthorsYoung Mog Song (Kosin University, corresponding author), J A Du Rand (0000-0003-4878-6615, University of Johannesburg)
Year2009
Volume30
Issue2
Publication date2009-09-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVerbum et Ecclesia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1609-9982 • E-ISSN: 2074-7705
PublisherAOSIS (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.4102/ve.v30i2.337
OpenAlexW2133471363
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited1

The exodus motif is widely agreed to be one of the central frameworks illustrating the salvational acts of God in both the Old and New Testaments. According to the Old Testament, the exodus motif was, to Israel, the paradigm of redemptive historical renewal. For this reason, the exodus motif provided the typological expression for all future hope of salvation and served as a theological paradigm to be used by Old and New Testament authors. In this article, the exodus theme in the Book of Revelation, chapters 12 to 13, is discussed in the following order: (1) Christ s crucif xion and resurrection as the archetypal exodus; (2) the chronological fulf llment of the exodus theme in the Bible; and (3) the exodus theme in Revelation 12 to 13. To investigate the exodus theme in Revelation 12 to 13, the intertextual interpretation, as based on the redemptive historical interpretation, will be highlighted

Aesthetics · Art · Biblical theology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Motif (music · New Testament · Old Testament · Revelation · Theme (computing · Theology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy

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