Deus Misereatur

  Exodus Old and New: A Biblical Theology of Redemption L. Michael Morales IVP Academic www.ivpress.com ISBN:  978-0-8308-5539-1; August 2020; $22.00   It doesn’t take long while out hiking in the hinterlands. As one treks through shrubs and woodlands, ascending and descending along dusty trails or unmarked ways, there begins to grow a sense of somewhereness. I am presently here, trudging and traipsing, dirty and damp, heading to an end point, but I belong somewhere else; somewhere that is beautiful, somewhere that is tranquil and restful, somewhere subtly or surprisingly refreshing.   L. Michael Morales, professor of biblical studies at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Taylors, South Carolina, and previous provost and professor of Old Testament at Reformation Bible College in Sanford, Florida, has recently penned a scenic script that taps into this somewhereness. It is a 224-page softback that takes up exile and exodus in Scripture, and de...

Exodus (Apollos Old Testament Commentary Series) T. Desmond Alexander IVP Academic PO Box 1400 Downers Grove, IL 60515-1426 www.ivpress.com ISBN: 978-0-8308-2502-8; $45.00; July 2017 Exodus can be a rather daunting biblical book. From the harshness and inhumanity of the beginning chapters, to the scourges, through the evacuation, up to the heights of Sinai, and climaxing in the splendor of the kavod of YHWH (the glory of the LORD) filling the tent; the reader is taken from a veritable grave through a resurrection of sorts, and on to an ascension. How in the world can a preacher or Bible teacher keep it all together if they are taking their congregation through Exodus? T. Desmond Alexander, senior lecturer in biblical studies and director of postgraduate studies at Union Theological College in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and author, has done painstaking work in his new 708 page hardcover commentary, “Exodus”. This volume is another installment in the Apollos Commentary Series. It is i...

Yesterday my first issue came to me. I had let it run out a few years back and recently decided to subscribe once again. I was not disappointed with my choice, because just a few pages into the January/February 2012 Issue, was a short piece that stopped me dead in my tracks, and forced me to think and pray. It was a piece in the “Quodlibet” section, a segment that has short, thought provoking snippets by various authors related to Touchstone Magazine . The portion that hauled me up short was by Peter J. Leithart, titled “The War on Idols.” As Leithart is rehearsing the well known story of the 10 plagues, he reminds us that the plagues were God’s assault on the Egyptian hierarchy of deities. Then he identifies how the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob poured out some of the earlier plagues not only on the pagan Egyptians, but also on the long-enslaved people of Israel. As Leithart reasons with the “why” of this, he concludes that the cause was because the Israelites were idolaters as we...