9:15 AM Adult Forum - Library
Sunday, March 24, 2024, 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
As a follow-on to Father Totty’s 3 sessions on the Book of Genesis, we will spend our next 4 sessions on an in-depth study of the Book of Exodus.
The Book of Exodus is so long and so pivotal that most of us are familiar with the basics. The children of Israel start out as slaves in Egypt, but the God of Abraham has never left them. Moses leads them out of slavery across the Red Sea. They wander in the desert for forty years before entering Canaan. Somewhere in there, Moses receives the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai.
What we think we know about Exodus differs from what is written in the book itself.
In our first session we covered these topics:
- Dating and authorship
- Main characters – God, The Children of Israel, Moses
- How the text harkens back into Genesis and how it looks forward into the prophets, Jesus’ teachings and Paul’s ministry
In this second session we will cover – this week, March 24:
- The major themes and terms as used in Exodus – fire, water, wilderness, construction and Hebrew terms with multiple meanings in different contexts
- Understanding the back story
We will take two weeks off for Easter and April Breakfast Sunday. We will return on April 14 and 21 and discuss such topics as:
- Moses and the Burning Bush
- Strange Encounters
- Plagues & Passover
- Crossing the Sea
- Wanderings
Please join us for these sessions as we benefit from almost 3 hours of video presentation and years of research and study by Vicki Garvey. Ms. Garvey is a respected teacher and author and former Canon for Lifelong Education at the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. She has led workshops across the United States and internationally on Bible study.
