Deuteronomy 4:34
Hebrew Bible
33 Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it? 34 Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes? 35 You have been taught that the Lord alone is God—there is no other besides him.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Amos 9:7
Hebrew Bible
6 He builds the upper rooms of his palace in heaven and sets its foundation supports on the earth. He summons the water of the sea and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name. 7 “You Israelites are just like the Ethiopians in my sight,” says the Lord. “Certainly I brought Israel up from the land of Egypt, but I also brought the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir. 8 Look, the Sovereign Lord is watching the sinful nation, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. But I will not completely destroy the family of Jacob,” says the Lord.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... The Hebrew Bible itself provides at least rudimentary models for such a historical-critical examination of theological concepts. So, for example, Deuteronomy 4:34 highlights the uniqueness of Israel's exodus from Egypt: “Has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?” This opinion is historically and theologically criticized [and contradicted] in Amos 9:7: "Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel? Says the LORD. Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?" ..."
Krüger, Thomas
Recent Developments in the History of Ancient Israel and their Consequences for a Theology of the Hebrew Bible
(pp. 5-13) University of Zurich, 2010
* The use of references are not endorsements of their contents. Please read the entirety of the provided reference(s) to understand the author's full intentions regarding the use of these texts.
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