Autor: Voegelin, Eric

Buch: Israel and Revelation

Titel: Israel and Revelation

Stichwort: Israel: Ursprung in Moses; Moses: leap in being, Gott seines Vaters, Kindheit Flucht (Exodus 2)

Kurzinhalt: Moses has its origin in the leap in being; J, E, and P sources: an independent origin which defies dating;

Textausschnitt: 45/12 "By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up from Egypt." The order of Israel has its origin in Moses; and the order in the soul of Moses has its origin in the leap in being, that is, in his response to a divine revelation. Two principal sources for the understanding of the Mosaic experience are extant. The first is the prologue to the revelation, in Exodus 2; the second is the account of the revelation itself, in the thornbush episode of Exodus 3:1-4:17. (402; Fs) (notabene)
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... The fact that Yahweh was a well-known divinity is important, however, only in so far as it attests the continuity of symbols; it has no bearing on the contents of the revelation. God, when he revealed himself to Moses, could be identified by him as a familiar divinity; and especially he could be so identified by the Hebrews whom Moses had to bring up from Egypt, or they would hardly have followed him. Nevertheless, while the continuity of the symbol could engender trust, the Yahweh of Moses was God in the mode of his revelation to Moses; no pre-Mosaic Yahweh has anything to do with the constitution of Israel as the Son of God in history. Hence, we must also exclude all speculations which try to reduce Yahweh to the primitivity that befits a god of the second millennium B.C. in the progressive order of things-whether he was, for instance, a "mountain god" (because he appeared on Mount Sinai), or a "fire god,"