croatto: "have we paid sufficient attention to the fact that the first, exemplary liberation event, which 'reveals' the God of salvation, was political and social?"
'Exodus as a paradigm of revolutionary politics'
;The Israelites are not, after all, magically transported to the promised land; they are not carried on the 'eagle's wings' of Exodus 19; they must march to get there, and the march is full of difficulties, crises, struggles, all realistically presented, as if we invite human as well as divine resolution.'
'what is promised is radically different from what is: the end is nothing like the beginning...the Exodus bears no resemblance to those ancient tales of voyages and journeys that, whatever the adventures they include, begin and end at home.'
'the Israelites do not, as is it sometimes said, go wandering in the wilderness; the Exodus is a journey forward - not only in time and space. It is a march toward a goal, a moral progress, a transformation.'
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