Category: Exodus

  • Tabernacle Furniture: What Does It Mean?

    Tabernacle Furniture: What Does It Mean?

    Most of the furnishings of the tabernacle are not hard to understand. But what is the meaning of the lampstand and of the so-called showbread or ‘bread of the presence’?

  • Out of Egypt

    Out of Egypt

    Where did the Israelites cross the Red Sea? Or did they? Perhaps it would be better to ask: What did they cross? Questions like these have been a puzzle for biblical scholars. For many today, however, all of this belongs to the realm of legend and myth; none of it happened, and there is therefore…