Torah Tuesday - Exodus
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Torah Tuesday is a weekly video series with me, Dr. Carmen Joy Imes. Today I'm sharing from my forthcoming commentary for Baker Academic on Exodus 20:22-25, the first section of the Covenant Scroll, which contains the law about altar building.
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You are an added blessing to millions in understanding the Torah with this series! Thank you so much. 😊
Well, millions of people haven't found the videos yet, but I'm glad that you enjoy them!
@CarmenJoyImesPhD I do often share and discuss within my friend Circles, will soon reach to millions. Indeed it should reach as many as possible and I am eagerly waiting for your upcoming commentary on exodus praying for you!
I’m reading through the Torah right now and enjoying it so much!
Hurrah!
Thank you for your Spirit filled insights into Exodus!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for continuing the series in 2025. Perfect bite size for each week. Cool resources too!
Glad you like them!
I just shared Torah Tuesday with my homeschool co-op parents today. I hope they will start tuning in every week and get a fresh look at Exodus like I've been getting! Thank you for your work!
Wonderful! Thanks for spreading the word!
As often as I’ve red through scriptures, I never ‘saw’ all this about the earthen alters. Fascinating!
One of my students wrote a paper on it this semester. It helped all of us to slow down and notice things we had missed!
I love the book of Exodus ever since I first read it - Moses is my favourite person in the Bible and I love the Pentateuch!
Exodus is GREAT!
The Torah Story sounds great! I especially like illustrations. They bring archeology to life.
Yes! I agree.
Hi Carmen. Thank you so much for this beautiful education in the most important of topics.
My pleasure!
Thank you for these videos Carmen and for your resource recommendations. My library is slowly growing ❤
Wonderful!
It's good to listen to your research on the book of Exodus. The post-grad students of Biblical studies, like me, are getting benefit from your work. God Bless!
So happy to hear this! Thanks for watching!
Love your teaching! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
You are so welcome!
Thank you for putting out the Torah Tuesday videos!
You're welcome!
Worship, the nexus of heaven and earth, good stuff. Also, I always love the sacred space undertones to all the requirements of the alter etc. Such good stuff. Thank you again.
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
I always enjoy how you draw application for us today from the text, especially when it isn't directly Christological. Very refreshing when reading and studying the OT.
So glad you're enjoying the videos!
Thank you! This is so helpful. I love that the alters are to be simple and local - something everyone can do. We are all also being invited to worship. this is a beautiful picture
So true!
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As always these short studies are so helping. The background you provide is much appreciated. Thank you also for the book recommendations.
You are so welcome!
Loved the first edition so much! My wife and I picked our youngest's name while sitting in our Pentateuch class years before he was born. :-)
Nice!
One more thing, thank you so much for freely using the divine name. I don’t know how you can accurately understand the Law or the OT generally and leave out the name of its author.
Agreed!
Looking forward to listening to this soon, Carmen! For now, just commenting! :)
Thank you so much for Torah Tuesdays!! The Torah Story sounds awesome, and something I'd be very interested in!
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Thank you for blessing us with your knowledge! Exodus has a special place in my heart as the Lord keeps bringing me back to it as I progress on my spiritual journey. The richness of today's Torah Tuesday made my heart sing and I'm compelled to dig deeper into Exodus once again. Thank you!
Exodus is such a rich book! So glad you're enjoying these videos.
Really enjoyed the series looking forward to all future episodes!
Thanks for watching!
Looking forward to the new book. Thanks for giving us these insights into God's good, gracious, merciful character
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Pure nuggets of platinum every week, from a very busy sister! Godspeed your portion of His ministry in 2025!
Thanks, Tracy!
Thanks for the amazing content!😊
My pleasure! Glad you're enjoying it.
Joining together by building an alter is such a great image.
Thanks for watching!
Wow! The Torah Story book and workbook would be great for independent study work!
Yes, indeed!
Leaving a comment for the Torah workbook! 😅 I love your videos!!!! 🥰🫶🏽🕊️
So glad to hear this!
Missed you, Carmen. But glad you took a break. Hope you had nice holidays. 🙂
Welcome back to Torah Tuesday! Happy New Year!
I appreciate your work so very much-I’m going to work through Exodus and your Torah Tuesdays for my Devos for the next 6 months, as you mentioned. I’m excited!
Excellent! Blessings on your study.
Your teachings are really helpful and this is great source of knowledge being a Biblical studies students. The book looks interesting.
May God bless you and your work.
Thank you, Ruth!
Thank you!
Can you tell me about the books? Torah study.
Looks fantastic! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I just got your book on the Psalms. It is excellent 👌
So glad you are enjoying it!
Thank you for these videos - I so appreciate your work! I’m preparing to teach through Deuteronomy, so it helps me to go back and hear your explanation of the first giving of the Mosaic covenant, and now especially the Covenant Scroll.
Wonderful!
Merry Christmas Dr Imes :) 🙌 Hristos se Rodi
Happy Epiphany to you!
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Great insight!
Thank you for watching!
So excited about your Torah collection!! Going to do a deep dive into the OT with my group next month.
Great! Blessings on your studies!
Great videos!
Glad you like them!
I’ve been telling everyone in my weekly small Bible study group about Torah Tuesday’s! Would love to get that Workbook to expand my knowledge of the OT.
So glad to hear it!
If I visualize this well: they later in Exodus set up the tabernacle for common assemblies as they move from place to place.
But at this point each family perhaps sets up their own altar at their campsite? So, one would look across the landscape to see it dotted with family encampments each with its own altar. Reminding them of a common faith.
When they move on these piles of stones remain as witness to the presence of God’s people. If I see this right it is, to me, a fascinating picture of faith and worship.
Thank you for the recommendation of Hearts and Minds bookshop. They ship internationally so I am so happy to be able to get your books where I live
I'm so glad to hear that!
The Torah is an underestimated part of the Bible to most Christians.
So true! It's the foundation of the rest of the Scriptures. We miss so much without it!
Thank you! I always learn something new with each one of your videos! I had studied through Exodus last year. When I came to this passage, my mind went back to Gen 11 with the Babel event. Particularly when the people begin to build, they say ‘let us make a name for ourselves’. So my thought was, when they are commanded in Ex 20 not to wield a tool on an altar of stone, could he also be communicating this to prevent them from thinking: ‘Look what I created’. In other words Focusing on their own creation rather than the creator. Probably not a 1 to 1 comparison since we’re talking about hewn stones vs mud bricks in Gen 11…but wondering what your thoughts are. Could this be another possible purpose of giving this law, or am I off base? Thank you!
Yes, I think that could be a factor. By building an entirely natural altar, the Israelites would not be able to take credit for a monument, and the resulting altar would not compete with the central sanctuary.
@ Thank you so much for the reply! Wanted to make sure I wasn’t over-reading the passage.
Very helpful! Was there any broader significance of the altar made of earth in the rest of the Pentateuch? I am wondering if the "natural" aspect of the altar somehow corresponds to the offering of the body in Romans 12.1-2.
What a cool idea, Owen!
Dr Imes, how late into the biblical times were these altars of earth or unhewn stones being built?
An interesting question! I'm not sure we would have any way of knowing for sure, since the altars easily eroded.
@@CarmenJoyImesPhD The stone ones probably would. But I meant if there is any mentioning of them in later texts?
Wouldn't mind a soft copy of the book
The textbook only comes in hardback, but the workbook is softcover. (Or did you mean you'd prefer digital?)
@CarmenJoyImesPhD Thank you for the reply. I did mean digital actually 🙂
how do you interpret Yahweh‘s desire for sacrifice? Was it a requirement, or a condescension within an existing cultural practice? The verses you read say you MAY offer sacrifices on the altar, and iF you build an altar of stone.
These sacrifices seem to be voluntary expressions of thanks and fellowship, not a requirement. I interpret the sacrificial system as an accommodation to ancient culture, in which wealth was measured by flocks and herds.
Hi carmen was wondering if you could illuminate revelation 12, my understanding is that it's about mary, eve or Jerusalem and from seeing one of Tim mackies adam and eve videos the answer to that question is "yes" meaning to me that the woman is linked to all of them. My question is what's happening with the woman on a poetic level? Like is there any understanding to why these hyperlinks are set and what they do? And what they mean? Aswell what does clothed with the sun, moon under her feet and a crown of 12 stars might mean? Can i ask too do you know any good sources that illuminates this passage in English well enough to understand what's happening in the original Greek? Thank you so much if you do ❤
Hi Emily, I haven't studied that passage in depth, but you're right that it's pulling together a number of different metaphors/threads that run through the Bible. Have you watched the BibleProject video on 'The Bible as Ancient Meditation Literature'? That one might be helpful. Michael Gorman's 'Reading Revelation Responsibly' is also good.
Worship is the nexus of heaven and earth.
Everyday people and alters and sacrifice. Is this in light of their priestly calling? Or was this a common religious practice among other people groups?
I *think* altar-building is common practice in the ancient Near East (e.g., Abraham does so repeatedly, long before they are called a kingdom of priests), but that's a great question and I'm not sure.
Why do you use Yahweh instead of Adonai?
Abraham made a worship site where he gathered stones best I recall!
Then eating the sacrifice, are people eating what’s absolutely burnt? Then is the rest to be completely burned to a crisp?
Yahweh is God's personal name, which he invited Moses and future generations to use (Exodus 3:15). Adonai means Lord. It's a title, not a name.
Yes, sometimes the patriarchs built altars out of stone. That is ok here, too, as long as the stones are natural, not cut by tools.
No, people don't eat burnt sacrifices. A burnt offering belongs wholly to God. They eat parts of the fellowship offering, cooked to be eaten.
@@CarmenJoyImesPhD Thanks for answering, but I need to ask the sacrificial animal, was it literally burnt to a crisp? Then bones would remain, I’m thinking, so what was done with these remnants of animal? Or were they left until the next sacrifice where repetitive heat would make them maybe become a powder? I know industrially where there’s bone ash, which huge slaughter of cows and pigs every year, they most likely boil them for cooking stock, gelatin then subject them probably to further direct heat and pulverizing to be used industrially. I’m guessing that’s the process it’d take. Which makes me question the remaining bones after sacrifice??? It’d take a lot of heat and physical force as pulverizing to turn to powder. Pardon me if I’m going too deep, I’m simply curious how it would work.
LET US BE CLEAR.
Every word from the mouth of God given directly to Moses was from the mouth of Moses.
NOT THE COMMANDMENTS.
God gave them directly to the Israelites, just as this lady is citing in 25.
It means it's only the second of only 2 times God spoke to great crowds, who heard him, centuries apart.
Christianity has NO AWE, for the time God spoke from the sky at the baptism of Jesus, as if holy is a foreign language, unable to discern.
BOTTOM LINE: HOLLYWOOD IS A LIAR AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY, including Sunday Christianity, with ZERO AWE, bless their mortal hearts.