Book Of Exodus Research Paper

Another account of political liberation is in The Book of Exodus. The Book of Exodus begins by detailing the death of Joseph and his brothers; although, their future generations would continue to produce in Egypt (Mathiowetz 183-184). However, a new Pharaoh came into power in Egypt and felt threatened by Joseph’s descendants and decided to not only kill all of the Hebrew boys but to also throw them into Nile River and enslave all of the women (Mathiowetz 184-185). Later, a woman bore a son and wanted to spare his life, so the mother decided to set the boy into a basket and sail him down the Nile to save him from being killed (Mathiowetz 186). The child was then rescued by the Pharaoh's daughter and took him as one of her own and named him Moses (Mathiowetz 186). Moses then

Moses was self-conscious with his freedom in which he wanted to set free his people from not only slavery but from their limits of thinking. Hence, Moses wanted to free his people in order to create active participants for his community in which they themselves would assist one another to promote the welfare of their community. Since the Israelites were slaves by nature, the only form of thought they processed were the orders given to them by the Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Throughout the entire Book of Exodus, the process of liberating the Israelites goes beyond their imprisonment from the Pharaoh. In essence, the Israelites were slaves by nature because they were bounded by their limits of thinking. For example, this is apparent when Moses came down from the mountain to see his people worshipping a golden calf. This incident occurred during Moses absence because the Israelites were so used to following order in which they did not know how to think for themselves. Thus, they created this idol as a potential leader to create an illusion of the master and slave where the idol would benefit from the Israelites and vice