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02564aam a2200373 i 4500 001 7764D7AA6AA411EB90829B3829ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210209010015 008 210205t20212021ctu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0300253036 020 $a 9780300253030 035 $a (OCoLC)1236212326 040 $a IOU $e rda $c IOU $b eng $d SILO 082 04 $a 222.1206 $2 23 100 1 $a Kass, Leon, $e author. 245 10 $a Founding God's nation : $b reading Exodus / $c Leon R. Kass. 246 30 $a Reading Exodus 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xix, 726 ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part One. Out of Egypt : Slavery and deliverance : Exodus 1-15 -- Part Two. From the mountain : Covenant and law : Exodus 15-23 -- Part Three. To the Tabernacle : Worship and presence : Exodus 24-40. 520 $a In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, humanist scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself. Considered by some the most important book in the Hebrew Bible, Exodus tells the story of the Jewish people from their enslavement in Egypt, through their liberation under Moses's leadership, to the covenantal founding at Sinai and the building of the Tabernacle. In Kass's analysis, these events began the slow process of learning how to stop thinking like slaves and become an independent people. The Israelites ultimately founded their nation on three elements: a shared narrative that instills empathy for the poor and the suffering, the uplifting rule of a moral law, and devotion to a higher common purpose. These elements, Kass argues, remain the essential principles for any freedom-loving nation today.-- $c Provided by publisher. 545 0 $a Leon R. Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago. His books include The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis. 630 00 $a Bible. $p Exodus $x Criticism, interpretation, etc. 630 00 $a Bible $x Criticism, interpretation, etc. 655 7 $a Religious materials. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525041857.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025012656.0 952 $l UUAX975 $d 20220203011314.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210209010140.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7764D7AA6AA411EB90829B3829ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search