God and Moses’ Identity. Narrative Reading of Exodus 2:1–3:15
Zdzisław Pawłowski
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Wydział Teologiczny , PolandAbstract
The article postulates a narrative reading of Exodus 2:1–3:15 as a more appropriate one than a historicalcritical reading focused on the composite origin and the literary evolution of the text. The text in the several wellthought episodes creates a narrative identity of Moses in its multifaceted form. In his lifespan he has been subjected to the influence of three religions: Egyptian, Hebrew, and Midian. All of them are challenged in the call narrative (Ex 3:115). Searching for the meaning of a common desert bush on fire Moses is looking for a significance of his entire life. At the same time however he encounters God in a radically new form, adequate to his narrative identity. Thus the new identity of God and of Moses interweave with each other in one formula: I AM has sent me to you (Ex 3:14).
Keywords:
Narrative identity, Moses, JHWH, burning bush, I AM, religion, God of Fathers, discontinuityReferences
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Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Wydział Teologiczny Ks. Zdzisław Pawłowski – prof. dr hab., absolwent Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego oraz Papieskiego Instytutu Biblijnego w Rzymie. Studiował także w Jerozolimie i na Uniwersytecie w Sheffield, w Anglii. Jest wykładowcą egzegezy Starego i Nowego Testamentu oraz teologii biblijnej na Wydziale Teologicznym UMK w Toruniu. Publikacje: Opowiadanie, Bóg i początek. Teologia narracyjna Rdz 1 – 3, Warszawa 2003; Narracja i egzystencja. Genesis w hermeneutyce opowieści, Toruń 2013,; obszary zainteresowań: hermeneutyka biblijna, teologia narratywna, hermeneutyka historii w księgach narracyjnych Starego Testamentu.
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