Reading Exodus with Leon Kass

Observations · March 12, 2021
Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Completing Creation
By Leon R. Kass
After the golden calf, something wondrous happens. Leon Kass walks us through what that is in this final installment of our series on Exodus.
Observations · March 5, 2021
Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Moses and the Levites
By Leon R. Kass
Why does Moses order every Levite to practice fratricide?
Observations · February 26, 2021
Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: The Place Where God Dwells
By Leon R. Kass
This week, we learn that God wants to be known not only as the Israelites' deliverer from bondage but also as an immediate and permanent presence in their lives.
Observations · February 19, 2021
Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Questions to Ask about the Tabernacle
By Leon R. Kass
Does the preservation of the covenant depend upon repeated revelations and direct divine encounters, or are there more permanent ways?
Observations · February 12, 2021
Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Israel’s Obligations to the Stranger
By Leon R. Kass
One cannot exaggerate the importance of the Bible's novel—even revolutionary—teaching about the outsider who lives among the Israelites.
Observations · February 5, 2021
Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: What Is the Covenant?
By Leon R. Kass
God’s proposed covenant does not look to men of virtue or point to rule by philosophers or kings or prophets. The covenant is made with each and every person.
Observations · January 29, 2021
Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: The Meaning of Amalek
By Leon R. Kass
Why is the Lord so adamant about obliterating Amalek, and why does He make His intentions known?
Observations · January 21, 2021
Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: Knowledge of the Divine
By Leon R. Kass
This week, Kass looks at what the ten plagues of Egypt reveal about the God who metes them out.
Observations · January 15, 2021
Reading Exodus with Leon Kass: What Is Egypt?
By Leon R. Kass
This week, we look at the religious, political, and cultural matrix out of which Israel emerges, and the human alternative against which Israel will be defined.
Observations · January 8, 2021
Reading Exodus with Leon Kass
By Leon R. Kass
Read along with one of our time's great readers of the Bible as he works his way through the book of Exodus.
Monthly Essay · June 1, 2013
The Ten Commandments
By Leon R. Kass
Why the Decalogue Matters