Episode 287: The Exodus. The Biblical Vision as an Overturn of Established Authority. The Vision of History as Linear and Progressive.

The Bible has been used to reinforce an authoritarian ideology of obedience to an elite, but in fact the Exodus, the defining event of the Old Testament, is a revolt against authority, and has had a powerful influence: “Let my people go.” The Biblical vision as historical and progressive rather than as endless cycles of death and renewal.