Methods for Exodus (Methods in Biblical Interpretation)

Methods for Exodus is a textbook on biblical methodology. The book introduces readers to six distinct methodologies that aid in the interpretation of the book of Exodus: literary and rhetorical, genre, source and redaction, liberation, feminist, and postcolonial criticisms. Describing each methodology, the volume also explores how the different methods relate to and complement one another. Each chapter includes a summary of the hermeneutical presuppositions of a particular method with a summary of the impact of the method on the interpretation of the book of Exodus. In addition, Exodus 1–2 and 19–20 are used to illustrate the application of each method to specific texts. The book is unique in offering a broad methodological discussion with all illustrations centered on the book of Exodus.

Thomas B. Dozeman is Professor of Theology at the United Theology Seminary in Dayton. He has written extensively on the book of Exodus and the Pentateuch in general and is the author of God on the Mountain: A Study of Redaction, Theology and Canon in Exodus 19–24; God at War: Power in the Exodus Tradition; The Commentary on Numbers in the New Interpreters Bible; The Commentary on Exodus in the Eerdman's Critical Commentary Series; Holiness and Ministry: A Biblical Theology of Ordination, and, with Konrad Schmid, A Farewell to the Yahwist? The Interpretation of the Pentateuch in Contemporary European Scholarship.