#Gafney Library

[anitanh]

"The Dimming / For Dane" by AnitaNH. Collage with matching greeting cards donated to the Gafney Library in Sanbornville, New Hampshire for their annual fundraising art raffle: Art at the Gafney 2025.

[a-queer-seminarian]

Book of Exodus - resources

My pastor asked me for resources on the Book of Exodus, so I compiled a list of the various things I read/wrote for an exegesis of exodus course back in seminary....i figured i would share it here too in case anyone was interested!

i’ve included links that lead to PDFs of the articles on google drive.

My own works:

If you ever wanna use something I wrote, just let me know! And don’t plagiarize me please lmao

An outline of the Book of Exodus

“Exodus 4:10-13 - A competing voice on disability in the Hebrew Bible” -- this paper is like, my magnum opus haha. i argue in favor of Moses being a disabled figure and discuss how his disability interacts with the rest of his story + how disability was viewed in biblical Israel

Here are links to two of the articles I used to argue that Moses has a speech impairment: “Mosaic Disability and Identity,” “Heavy of Mouth and Heavy of Tongue”

“God’s role in trauma recovery in the Book of Exodus” -- connects the Divine Name to the Israelites’ slow work of recovery + connects contemporary scholarship on trauma, especially the generational trauma of African Americans, to the Exodus text

My translations of Exodus passages, with word studies -- if you like knowing about the Hebrew of a text, here ya go!

Exodus 1:8-22

Exodus 2:1-10

Exodus 3:9-15

Exodus 4:10-13

Exodus chapter 5 + chapter 6:1-9

Exodus 12:28-32

Exodus 13: 1-2, 11-16

Exodus 14:1-12

Exodus 15:19-21

Exodus 20:1-17

Exodus 21:1-11

Exodus 22:28-29

Exodus 32:1-8

Texts that offer introductory material, commentaries

Brueggemann, Walter. “The Torah” and “The Book of Exodus.” Pages 15-28 and 53-66 in An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003).

Gafney, Wilda C. “Introduction” and “Exodus.” Pages 1-11 and 87-106 in Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017).

Book / commentary: Terence Fretheim, Exodus (Interpretation Series)

Book / commentary: Brevard S. Childs, The Book of Exodus (Old Testament Library Series)

Book / commentary: Thomas B. Dozeman, Exodus (Eerdmans Critical Commentary)

Besides those, we didn't read any book in full, but that means I've got lots of pdfs of articles / book chapters I can send you!

Connecting Exodus to African American theologies / experiences

Kling, David. “‘Let My People Go’: Exodus in the African American Experience.” Pages 194-231 in The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Marbury, Herbert. “Introduction” and “Exodus at the Intersection of the Black Power Movement and the Black Church.” Pages 1-12 and 170-200 in Pillars of Cloud and Fire: The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation (New York: New York University, 2015).

Hurston, Zora Neale. Moses, Man of the Mountain (New York: Harper, 1939) <-- a novel, it's really good!

Culture and history of ancient Egypt, Israel, etc.

Bach, Alice. “With a Song in Her Heart: Listening for Scholars Listening for Miriam.” Pages 419-427 in Women in the Hebrew Bible. Ed. Alice Bach (New York: Routledge, 1999)

Leahy, Anthony. “Ethnic Diversity in Ancient Egypt.” Pages 225-34 in Jack M. Sasson (ed.) Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (New York 1995).

Dewrell, Heath. “A General Sacrifice of Firstborn Children.” Pages 72-90 in Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel (Winona Lake, In: Eisenbrauns, 2017).

Hays, Christopher B. “Birth Accounts: Sargon and Moses (Exodus 2:1-10).” Pages 114-119 in Hidden Riches: A Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2014).

Knight, Douglas. “Israelite Law and Biblical Law” and “The Law of Power.” Pages 9-29 and 58-86 in Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011).

Hays, Christopher B. “Law Collections: The Laws of Hammurabi and the Covenant Code (Exodus 20-23).” Pages 121-145 in Hidden Riches: A Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2014).

Bible scholarship stuff / misc.

Fishbane, Michael. “Exodus 1-4/The Prologue to the Exodus Cycle.” Pages 63-76 in Biblical Text and Texture: A Literary Reading of Selected Texts (Oxford: One World, 1998 [1979]).

Kugel, James. “Moses in Egypt: Exodus 1:1-4:17” Pages 198-216 in How To Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now (New York: Free Press, 2007).

Baden, Joel. “The Continuity of the Non-Priestly Narrative from Genesis to Exodus” Biblica 93 (2012), 161-186.

Schmid, Konrad. “Genesis and Exodus as Two Formerly Independent Traditions of Origins for Ancient Israel” Biblica 93 (2012), 187-208.

Shinan, Avigdor and Yair Zakovitch. “Was Worshipping the Golden Calf a Sin?” 101-108 in From Gods to God (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2012).

[anitanh]

Art donated by 70 local artists now on display at the Gafney Library, 14 High Street in Sanbornville, New Hampshire.

[anitanh]

Annual summer fundraiser for the Gafney Library in Sanbornville, New Hampshire. Poster by AnitaNH