Sunday, October 23, 2011

Moses sources

Broyles, C. C. "Moses." In Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, eds.Joel B. Green, Scot McKnight, and Howard I. Marshall, 560-62. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1992.

Moses as Lawgiver

  • ref. to "Moses" or "Book/law of Moses" seems to point to the Pentateuch (560; Mark 12.26; 1.44; 10.3-5; 12.19)
One Like Moses
  • Transfiguration (Mk 9.2-10)
    • 40 days (Exod 24.18; 34.29; 1 Kgs 19.8)
    • theophany (Exod 19-24; 32-34; 1 Kgs 19.8-18)
    • remarkable departure from this life (Deut 34.1-6; 2 Kgs 2.1-12)
    • Moses and Elijah together (Mal 4.4-6)
    • "face shone" (Exod 34.29-35)
    • cloud, as in the Exodus (Exod 19.9, 16; 24.15-18; 34.5)
    • voice from the cloud (Exod 24.16)
    • "listen to him", said also of Moses (Deut 18.14-19)
  • Mountain typology - Mark features the symbol of the mountain, which serves as a place of revelation for Jesus as it had for Moses (561).
    • ref. to wilderness, esp. feeding in the wilderness (Exod 16.1, 3, 10, 14, 32; cf. Deut 8.2)
    • going up the mountain to pray (Mk 6.32, 35, 46)
  • Events in Moses' life foreshadow Jesus' life
    • Passover lamb whose bones are not broken (Exod 12.46; Num 9.12) and "the blood of the covenant" (Exod 24.8; Mk 14.24) foreshadow Jesus' death, though explicit ref. to Moses is lacking (562).

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