Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9780195356236
0195356233
1280533706
9781280533709
0195102177
9780195102178
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-203) and indexes.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The destruction of the Egyptian army in the Book of Exodus is the primary story of salvation for Israel; God is the chief combatant in this story. "Yahweh is a warrior!" So goes the victory hymn in Exodus 15:3 after the annihilation of the enemy by Yahweh, marking the importance held by this show of divine power. This unleashing of divine power and its militaristic imagery has long caught the attention of scholars as starkly nationalistic. Thomas B. Dozeman furthers this study by addressing the theological problem of divine power in the Exodus story and, by extension, the Judeo-Chris
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| Other form: | Print version: Dozeman, Thomas B. God at war. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
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