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Exodus 3:1-15
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| Shemot
3: Massoretic, Hebrew, Aramaic, JPS. |
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| Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
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Navigating the Bible: Text/Rabbinic commentary
and Divrei Torah. |
| Comparative World Scriptures from
United Communities of Spirit:
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| Chapter XVII of
The First Epistle to the Corinthians, Clement of Rome (ca.
96) |
| Chapter LXII,
Chapter LXIII,
The First Apology of Justin
Martyr. (c 150) |
| Chapter LX, Dialogue
With Trypho, Justin Martyr.
(c 160) |
| III.VI.2, IV.V.2, IV.VII.4, IV.X.1, IV.XII.4, Adversus
Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons.
(c. 180) |
| Chapter IX, Adversus
Judaeos, Tertullian
(c. 198) |
| Chapter
III, On Prayer, Tertullian
(c. 199) |
| I.6, I.8, Paedagogus,
Clement of Alexandria (c 200) |
| I.24, Stromata,
Clement of Alexandria (c 200) |
| III.V, Against
Marcion, Tertullian
(c. 209) |
| Chapter
I, Scorpiace, Tertullian
(c. 213) |
| I.III.6, II.IV.1, II.VIII.3, First
Principles (De Principiis), Origen.
(c.225) |
| VIII.II, The
Refutation of all Heresies (Philosophumena), Hippolytus of Rome.
(c. 225) |
| I.34, II.7, Commentary
on the Gospel of John, Origen.
(c.228) |
| VI.11, Commentary
on the Gospel of John, Philocalia [anthology of Origen prepared by St. Basil and St.
Gregory Nazianzen], Origen.
(c.230) |
| VII.XXVIII,
Against Celsus, Origen.
(c.246) |
| Chapter XX, Hortatory
Address to the Greeks, pseudo-Justin. (3rd cent?) |
| Book I,
Chapter 2, Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 320). |
| From the Geneva Notes.
 | "This shows that the Church is not
consumed by the fires of affliction, because God is in the midst of it." |
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| From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
| "The years of the life of Moses are divided into three forties; the first
forty he spent as a prince in Pharaoh's court, the second as a shepherd in Midian, the
third as a king in Jeshurun." |
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| From Wesley's Notes.
| "And the bush burned, and yet was not consumed - An emblem of the
church now in bondage in Egypt, burning in the brick - kilns, yet not consumed; cast down,
but not destroyed." |
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| From the Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
| "With [those in Eastern countries] the removal of the shoes is a confession
of personal defilement and conscious unworthiness to stand in the presence of unspotted
holiness." |
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| Contemporary References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
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Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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"Exodus 3:1-15,"
Pentecost 16,
Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure, Theological
Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church
in Australia.
| "It is one of the delights of the Old
Testament that one can be difficult and challenge God and a passive
deference is not necessarily an acceptable trait for a divine call.
Indeed, God could be seen as taking incredible risks with humans who are
very vulnerable and not very reliable at times." |
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Exodus 3:1-15, Pentecost 15, The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments
on the Revised Common Lectionary, Howard Wallace Audrey Schindler, Morag
Logan, Paul Tonson, Lorraine Parkinson, Theological Hall of the
Uniting Church, Melbourne, Australia.
| "There is more than enough grist for the preacher’s
mill here: there is the interplay of divine power and mystery with human
innocence; the nature of the divine call upon human life and the utter
dependence upon God in that; there is the ‘seeing’ and ‘hearing’ of God as
the source and foundation of our salvation; and the ‘grace’ of a God who
hears and sees through the clamour of our world down to the pain and hurt
of the least in order to raise them up and bring them to his mountain." |
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Third Sunday in Lent, The Via Negativa: Old Testament Lessons in
Lent, Jane E. Strohl, Word & World Texts in Context, Luther Seminary,
1995.
| "Again, as in the Deuteronomy text,
we are presented with the same core story, a history in the making of a
people oppressed and delivered." |
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"1. Bio-Politics
and the Midwives 2. Moses and Emancipation: Perashat Shemot," Mark H.
Kirschbaum, M.D., Tikkun. |
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"When Moses Burned Inside the Burning Bush," Arthur Ocean Waskow &
Phyllis Ocean Berman, The Shalom Center.
| "'God only knows where this dance is
going to take us,' he muttered. He turned to look back at the summit of
the mountain. 'It's up to You,' he shouted. 'I have no idea where we're
heading. Freedom, what a chance, a dance, we're taking!'" |
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"The
Call of Moses," Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com:
A Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel.
| "Many times when we try to change God's
will through prayer, we become frustrated. No wonder! Like Moses we seek
God's power, only to find we are not in charge." |
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"Back to the Burning Bush," William H. Willimon, The Christian Century,
2002.
| "It is odd that God needs someone,
particularly someone as inept as Moses, to do the work." |
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| Parshas
Shemos, Divrei Torah from The Project Genesis Torah Study. Index to numerous
Orthodox articles and studies on Exodus 1:1 - 6:1. |
| Parshat Schmot,
articles and commentary by the Jewish Community of Atlanta, at The Torah From Dixie.
| "Feeling
Sheepish," Benyamin Cohen
| "Many times, one can tell a lot about
somebody by the occupation they hold. Before becoming leader of the Jewish people, Moses
tended to his father-in-law's sheep. Why was Moses, the future redeemer of the entire
Jewish people, a meager shepherd?" |
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| "Final
Countdown," Rabbi Dov Ber Weisman
| "If Moses is to be the faithful shepherd
of the Jewish people, he needs to feel the sorrow, burden, and suffering of his people
like they are his own children, and he must be willing to sacrifice himself on their
behalf." |
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| "Lent
C3 - Exegetical Notes on Exodus 3:1-15," Douglas MacCallum
Lindsay Judisch, Concordia Theological Seminary (LCMS - Indiana).
| "The converse of this
symbolism is the sinner's natural fearfulness of the presence of the
All-Holy God. The resulting response, therefore, in verse 6 to the
Lord's self-revelation is the desire of Moses to hide his face. A
corresponding example in the New Testament would be the reaction of
Simon Peter to the Lord's revelation of His deity in the miraculous
drought of fish: "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O
Lord!" (Luke 5:8)." |
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| Articles & Background:
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Moses,
articles, photographs and video at BBC Religion and Ethics. |
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"The Meaning of Vocation," A.J. Conyers, (other resources at)
"Vocation," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian
Ethics at Baylor University, 2004.
| "'Vocation' is
distorted by two disastrous misunderstandings: a secularized idea of
'career' and a monastic concept of the religious life." |
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| Articles, poetry and illustrations from Jewish Heritage
OnLine Monthly's "Topic of the Month," Fire. Includes:
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| "The
Holy and the Sacred," Paul S. Minear, Yale Divinity School. Theology
Today, 1990.
| "The sacred is found wherever
religion is found; the holy wherever God is present. Accordingly, it
is quite possible to consider many things as sacred but nothing as
holy, or equally possible to treat many things as holy but nothing
as sacred. Everything depends on the concept of God. Of the two
terms, theistic religions view the holy as primary, the sacred as
secondary." |
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| St.
Catherine Monastery: explore the monastery, artwork, etc.
| "Set
beneath the mountain where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments, Saint
Catherine Monastery has been one of the world’s great centers of religious pilgrimage
for over fifteen centuries." |
| Chapel of the Burning
Bush (includes picture of the Burning
Bush)
| "The
monastery's spiritual heart is the Chapel of the Burning Bush, an unassuming structure of
tremendous religious significance. According the oldest monastic tradition, this chapel
sits atop the roots of the same Biblical bush "that burned with fire, and was not
consumed" (Exodus 3:2) when God spoke to Moses for the first time. A few feet away
from the Chapel is the reputed bush itself, a rare species of the rose family called Rubus
Sanctus." |
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"Burning
Bush" from botanical.com. |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Beach-Verhey, Kathy,
"Between Text and Sermon, Exodus 3:1-12," Interpretation, 2005. |
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Bush Still Burns: Reflections on Exodus 3, The, Issue focus on Exodus 3,
Religion and Intellectual Life, 1987. |
| Carroll, R.P.,
"Strange Fire: Abstract of Presence Absent in teh Text Meditations on Exodus
3," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 1994. |
| Coats, George W.,
"Moses in Midian," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1973. |
| den Hertog, Cornelis,
"The Prophetic Dimension of the Divine Name: On Exodus 3:14a and Its
Context," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2002. |
| Freedman, David Noel,
"The Name of the God of Moses," Journal of Biblical Literature,
1960. |
| Gianotti, Charles R.,
"The Meaning of the Divine Name YHWH," Bibliotheca Sacra, 1985. |
| Holmgren, Fredrick C.,
"Between Text & Sermon, Exodus 2:11-3:15," Interpretation, 2002. |
| Janzen, J. Gerald,
"The Child Is the Father of the Man: Moses in the Bulrushes," The
Living Pulpit, 2003. |
| McCarthy, Dennis J., S.J.,
"Exodus 3:14: History, Philology and Theology," The Catholic Biblical
Quarterly, 1978. |
| Mendenhall, Maury,
"Runaways," Journal for Preachers, 2001. Sermon. |
| Mowinckel, Sigmund,
"The Name of the God of Moses," Hebrew Union College Annual,
1961. |
| Phillips, Anthony and Lucy,
"The Origin of 'I am' in Exodus 3.14," Journal for the Study of the
Old Testament, 1998. |
| Robinson, Bernard P.,
"Moses at the Burning Bush," Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament, 1997. |
| Schild, E.,
"On Exodus 3:14 - 'I Am That I Am,'" Vetus Testamentum, 1954. |
| Thompson, Thomas L.,
"How Yahweh Became God: Exodus 3 and 6 and the Heart of the Pentateuch,"
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 1995. |
| Wyatt, N.,
"The Significance of the Burning Bush," Vetus Testamentum, 1986. |
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| Reviews: |
| Sermons:
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"Clarity
about Your Calling," the Rev. Dr. Joanna Adams, Day 1, 2006. |
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"Go
Tell Them I'll Be There," from God Has
a Story, Too, by James A. Sanders, 1979. Full text online at Religion
Online. |
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"Mortal Meanness
and Divine Plentitude," Madeleine L'Engle, 30 Good Minutes,
Chicago Sunday Evening Club, 1995. |
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"Call: A Taste of
Understanding," Linda Loving, 30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday
Evening Club, 2003. |
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"Turning Aside,"
the Rev. Barbara Lundblad, Associate Professor of Homiletics at Union
Theological Seminary in New York City, 30 Good Minutes, Chicago
Sunday Evening Club, 2000. |
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"Something of God," the Rev. Dr. Francis H. Wade, Day 1, 1997. |
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"Our Uneasy
Relationship with God," Robert McAfee Brown,
30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday Evening Club,
1989. |
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"The Name of God: I Am," Pastor Edward F. Marquart, Grace Lutheran
Church, Seattle, Washington. |
| "Courage: Listen to the
Music,"
Real
Video Sermon,
On-Line
Illustrated Sermon,
Bible
Study, and
Devotion
by Sue
Nilson, Ginghamsburg Church, February 2001. |
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| With Children:
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"Moses and
the Burning Bush," Illustrating the Story (lessons, children's sermons),
coloring pages, activity sheets, crafts, children's songs. MSSS Crafts. |
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"The Burning
Bush," children's study, puzzles, coloring sheet, etc. Higher Praise
Christian Center. |
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"Burning
Bush," Jim Kerlin, childrensermons.com. |
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"The Call of Moses," online
computer java-based coloring pages from Grace Baptist Church of Feeding
Hill. |
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| Drama:
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| Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
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Clip Art, Exodus 3:2,
Exodus 3:6, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators. |
| Clip Art Images:
Exodus 3:1-15, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú. |
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Clip Art: Moses and
the Burning Bush, Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld woodcuts, World Mission
Collection, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. |
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Moses, Leader of
God's People PowerPoint Slide Masters. Henry
Martin, sermons4kids.com. |
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Burning Bush, Clip Art,
Anglican Diocese of Dunedin, New Zealand. |
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Exodus 3:1-15, Scripture Pics - graphics
relating to RCL texts, Matt Baker, Germantown UMC, Ohio. |
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| Hymns and Music:
| At Oremus
Hymnal:
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Hymn
Selections, The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship. |
| At Digital Hymnal (midi files, guitar chords, karaoke
files, projection text):
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| Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's
Art Index:
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| Movies scenes with the following themes,
listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
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| Study Links and Resources for the Book of Exodus |
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