The Pentateuch: Exodus–Deuteronomy
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Abstract
The PentateuchExodus–Deuteronomy Christopher T. Begg, Fred W. Guyette, Thomas Hieke, Michael W. Duggan, and William J. Urbrock Christopher T. Begg Catholic University of America Fred W. Guyette Erskine College and Seminary, Anderson University Thomas Hieke Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Michael W. Duggan Calgary AB, Canada William J. Urbrock University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh 2131. [The "Making of Moses"] Mark Leuchter and Zev Farber, "Introduction to 'The Making of Moses,'" HUCA 90 (2019) 89-111. The figure of Moses looms large across of the entirety of Jewish history in distinct and varied ways. Even in the oldest "classical" Jewish sources, Moses is remembered and deployed at symbolic and discursive cross-purposes, while the reception and transmission of Moses traditions in later sources evidences the same multidimensional character. The collection of articles assembled in the above issue of HUCA examines the methods, themes, agendas and contradictions that attend the invocation of the figure of Moses in different historical, literary, and social contexts, within and beyond the Jewish world. For abstracts of those articles, see ##2093, 2171, 2174, 2176, 2362, 2371, 2494, 2503. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] Google Scholar 2132. [Wisdom Elements in Exodus 1–2] Katherine David, "The Theological Purpose of Wisdom Elements in Exodus 1 and 2," Honoring the Wise: Wisdom in Scripture, Ministry, and Life, 3-14 [see #2538]. The first two chapters of Exodus build a strong bridge between the wisdom of Joseph in Egypt and the call of Moses (Exod 3:1 to 4:17) in Midian. Joseph's wisdom kept many people alive in a time of famine (Genesis 41), but one of the first things we hear about in Exodus is a culture of death. Pharaoh has given a command to kill all the male children born to the Hebrews. Question: What is driving this decision? Answer: Fear. He is afraid the Hebrews will become so numerous that they might try to overthrow their masters. So, where is wisdom to be found in this story? Wisdom is found in the risky actions of the midwives, Shiphrah and Puah. They dare to protect the newborn babies of the Hebrews. They choose life, even though Pharaoh can have them executed for disobeying his orders. These two midwives join Jochebed, Miriam, and Pharaoh's daughter in "a conspiracy of goodness" to keep Moses alive. Together they help bring about God's purpose and his kingdom. For a closer look at Miriam's role in this story, see J. Lewis, "Girl Power Gone Right in [End Page 790] Exodus 1–2: Miriam as Model for Contemporary Youth," Journal of Youth and Theology 18 (1, 2019) 3-18.—F.W.G. Google Scholar 2133. [Exodus 1–2] Mercedes Navarro Puerto, "Mujeres frente al miedo: Ex 1–2," Frauen, die sich einmischen, 127-40 [see #2535]. The narratives of Exodus 1–2 highlight various forms of fear, some causes of fear, and most importantly, the enormous power of fear. In these stories, all the characters are full of fear. The powerful benefit from the fear of the weak. The passage exposes the adverse effects of fear on characters, such as on Moses himself. Out of fear, Moses does not hesitate to use the greatest possible violence. In particular, the texts allow us to analyze and follow different strategies that help to channel and overcome the negative and destructive power of fear. The protagonists of these strategies are almost always women. N.'s article focuses on Shifra and Puah, on the mother and the sister of Moses, and on the princess of Egypt. It argues for the superiority of these women's strategies, because they favor both life and freedom. [Translated and adapted from published abstract—T.H.] Google Scholar 2134. [Exodus 1 and Israelite Corvée Labor] Ziony Zevit, "Exodus 1, Akkadian pilku, and Israelite Corvée Labor," Ve-ʾEd Yaʿaleh (Gen 2:6), Vol. 1, 393-411 [see #2545]. Z. asserts that the various forms of labor that Egyptian authorities imposed on the Israelites—as narrated in Exod 1:11-14—have in view the labor system by which a landowner could pay taxes...
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".