Our Bible Study on a Friday morning starts at 10am with Tea/Coffee and a General catch up, so that we can begin the session at 10:30am. – we finish about 12:00 depending on how the conversation is flowing. You are welcome to follow it through or dip in and out but most of all to engage with this text that is so central to our understanding of living as a people of faith.
We meet in the Blue Room and on Zoom –
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Passcode: 772397
This year we are going to attempt a great sweep through Exodus. We tend not to worry too much about who wrote what when, but we look at the story, and ask,
“What is is the author trying to say?”
“Whose voice can we hear? Who is unheard?”
“How do a variety of commentators read this narrative?”
“What is it saying to us in our context?”
The Main Commentaries we will be using are:- Carol Meyers, “Exodus”, Nahum Sarna, “Exploring Exodus”, Abel Ndjerareou in “African Bible Commentary”, P G George & Paul Swarup in South Asia Bible Commentary, Neril & Dee, “Eco Bible”, Wilma Gafney, “Womanist Midrash” and whatever else we find as we move through these texts.
The general plan is below – but the plan is subject to change through the vagaries of life.
| Date | Bible | Title |
| 15 Sep 23 | Exodus 16 | If only we had stayed in Egypt |
| 29 Sep 23 | Exodus 17 | Give us water to drink |
| 6 Oct 23 | Exodus 18 | What is this that you are doing? |
| 20 Oct 23 | Exodus 19 | You will be for me … a holy nation |
| 3 Nov 23 | Exodus 20 | I am the Lord your God who brought you out of salvery |
| 17 Nov 23 | Exodus 21 | These are the laws you are to set before them |
| 15 Dec 23 | Exodus 22 & 23 | You are to be my holy people |
| 5 Jan 24 | Exodus 24 | This is the blood of the Covenant |
| 19 Jan 24 | Exodus 25 & 26 | Then have them make a sanctuary for me |
| 2 Feb 24 | Exodus 27 – 30 | The Altar & The garments |
| 16 Feb 24 | Exodus 32 | The Golden calf |
| 15 Mar 24 | Exodus 40 | The Tabernacle |