Mail Call: How to Read Exodus by Tremper Longman III

Format:  Paperback
Page Count:  176
Publisher: IVP Academic
Publication Date:  September 30, 2009
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0830838589
ISBN-13: 978-0830838585
List Price:  $15.00

Many thanks to the kind folks at InterVarsity Press for sending along a review copy of Tremper Longman’s forthcoming book, How to Read Exodus.  In this new work, Longman shows how the book of Exodus is key to understanding the Bible, specifically deliverance, covenant and worship, which will in turn help us to better understand the story of Israel and of Jesus.  You can get a general idea of the flow of the book from the table of contents listed below:

Part 1:  Reading Exodus with a Strategy

• Chapter 1:  Understanding the Book of “Departure”

Part 2:  Reading Exodus as Literature

• Chapter 2:  The Shape of the Book of Exodus
• Chapter 3:  The Narrative Structure of Exodus

Part 3:  Reading Exodus as History in its Historical context

• Chapter 4:  Birth legends, Hammurabi and the Portable Shrines
• Chapter 5:  Evidence for the Exodus Event
• Chapter 6:  Does it Matter Whether the Sea Parted?

Part 4:  Reading Exodus as God’s Story

• Chapter 7:  God Rescues Abraham’s Descendants from Egyptian Bondage (chs. 1-18)
• Chapter 8:  God Gives Israel His Law (chs. 19-24)
• Chapter 9:  God Instructs Israel to Build the Tabernacle (chs. 25-40)

Part 5:  Reading Exodus as a Christian

• Chapter 10:  The Christian Experience of Exodus
• Chapter 11:  The Role of Law in the Christian Life
• Chapter 12:  “The Word Became Flesh and Tabernacled Among Us”

Appendix 1:  Who Wrote the Book of Exodus?

Appendix 2:  Commentaries on the Book of Exodus

This book is available for pre-order from Amazon and other book retailers.