The Word of a Sword and the Sword of a Word: A Reconsideration on the ‘Eagle Speech’ (Exod. 19. 4-6)

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Liberation is the most important theme of the biblical narratives that describe the oppressive situations. Especially the narrative history of ancient Israel from the exodus to the conquest has been central to liberation reading of the Hebrew Bible from its inception. In the same manner many people could be inspired by the liberation motif of the exodus in the oppressive situations. For example, in the course of social change in the nineteenth century many Highlanders in Scotland emigrated because of famine and enclosure. Some were enticed to leave the Highlands with the brighter prospects for the New World such as Canada and Australia. At those time the liberation theme of the exodus made emigrants have a new religious enthusiasm and be brave to across the Atlantic Ocean. For some Highlanders, the challenge of moving from the Highland to the New World could be envisaged in terms of the exodus, in which Moses led the Israelites to the promised land. The Highland as a land of oppression were comparable with Egypt, and the leaders of emigrant groups could be compared with Moses.1) Just as Moses did some ministers in Scotland preached the emigrants to go to the New World. This literary-religious imagination was taken by Christian ministers in the first half of the twentieth century. They also preached their congregations about the liberation motif in the book of exodus for anti-colonial struggle. In Latin America the liberation motif of the exodus has been a main resource of liberation and struggle against an unjust oppression.

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