{"id":54366,"date":"2023-10-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/blog\/?p=54366"},"modified":"2023-10-18T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:50:35","slug":"the-divine-name-and-the-call-of-moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/blog\/the-divine-name-and-the-call-of-moses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Divine Name and the Call of Moses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The revelation of the Divine Name (\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; YHWH or Yahweh) occurs in the context of the call of Moses. Interestingly, God reveals his name in an answer to an objection raised by Moses. Moses is reluctant to be the rescuer of the Israelites enslaved in Egypt. Let\u2019s learn more about the significance of the Divine Name and the call of Moses with some notes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/store\/product.php?productid=77400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Old and New Testament Library<\/a> volume on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/store\/product.php?productid=31326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Exodus<\/a> by Brevard Childs. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-yahweh-reveals-himself-and-calls-moses\"><strong>Yahweh Reveals Himself and Calls Moses<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Then Moses said to God, \u201cIf I come to the people of Israel and say to them, \u2018The God of your fathers has sent me to you,\u2019 and they ask me, \u2018What is his name?\u2019 what shall I say to them?\u201d God said to Moses, \u201cI AM WHO I AM.\u201d And he said, \u201cSay this to the people of Israel: \u2018I AM has sent me to you.\u2019\u201d God also said to Moses, \u201cSay this to the people of Israel: \u2018The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.\u2019 This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. <\/p><cite>Exodus 3:13-15<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>These chapters are characterized throughout by an interaction between the human and the divine. The section recounts a revelation of God to Moses. It issues in a divine commissioning of a messenger. It relates at length Moses\u2019 resistance to his inclusion in the divine plan. The intertwining of God\u2019s redemptive purpose for Israel with the reaction of his chosen vehicle forms the warp and woof of the call narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Moses Objects to the Call<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Moses raises a second objection to the call. \u2018Assuming that I come to the people of Israel and say to them, \u201cThe God of your fathers has sent me to you,\u201d and they ask me, \u201cWhat is his name?\u201d what shall I say to them?\u2019 Is this a genuine question? Was it something needful for Moses to know as God\u2019s messenger? It remains part of the exegetical question at issue to determine from the biblical context whether the question is a genuine one of faith or not. Its role here cannot be simply assumed on the basis of general analogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Certainly in its present context Moses\u2019 question is viewed as one in a series of objections (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/bible\/?query=Ex+3%3A11&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3:11<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/bible\/?query=Ex+4%3A1&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">4:1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/bible\/?query=Ex+4%3A10&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10<\/a>). It is part of the prophet\u2019s resistance. The issue as to whether it reflects the genuine concern of a prudent man or an artificial pretext of the doubter has, therefore, been somewhat relativized. The question is colored by the others in the series which more and more reflect doubt and outright excuse-making. Clearly the present text does not view Moses\u2019 concern as something absolutely needful to his office which God inadvertently failed to clarify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is now our task to hear this testimony as it found its place within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/bible\/?query=Ex+3&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chapter 3<\/a>. What is the import of the question in its present context?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Yahweh Responds to Moses\u2019 Objection<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Moses conjectures that the people will respond with a query. They will react to the announcement of his commission with the question, \u2018What is his name?\u2019 The question contains both a request for information and an explanation of its significance. These are two aspects of the one question. Clearly the people want to know more about God\u2019s intention. By requesting his name, they seek to learn his new relationship to them. Formerly he related to them as the God of the Fathers. What will he be to Israel now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the answers which follow the major point of the original tradition which concerned the revelation of the divine name Yahweh has been modified by its new position within the larger narrative. God first directs an answer to Moses which is explicitly distinguished from the answer intended for the people in response to their hypothetical question. The answer addresses itself to the question of God\u2019s intention. The fact that this answer is directed to Moses indicates that the question is not taken simply at face value. It reveals as much of Moses as it does of the people. He has cloaked his own doubt as to God\u2019s intention in terms of the people\u2019s query. God deals first with his problem which again indicates the description of prophetic resistance is still being portrayed. God said to Moses, \u2018I will be who I will be.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Revelation of the Divine Name<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The word-play on the name of God (<em>\u2019ehyeh-yahweh<\/em>) confirms the connection between name and significance. The formula is paradoxically both an answer and a refusal of an answer. The tenses of the formula indicate that more than a senseless tautology is intended, as if to say, I am who I am, a self-contained, incomprehensible being. Moses is not simply refuted as was Manoah (Judg. 14.18). Rather God announces that his intentions will be revealed in his future acts, which he now refuses to explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paronomastic formula (i.e., a play on words), which gives the answer its indefinite quality, also testifies that the reality of God will not be different from that made known in his revelation. The accent of the formula in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/bible\/?query=Ex+3%3A14&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">14a<\/a> falls on the first verb, as is shown by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/bible\/?query=Ex+3%3A14&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">14b<\/a>. God\u2019s intention for Moses is an expression of his being God and will be manifest according to his own plan. A positive answer is given to Moses, but one which neither condones his doubt nor satisfies his curiosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Meaning of the Divine Name<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Next God addresses an answer to the people\u2019s query which was posed by Moses. \u2018Say this to the people of Israel: \u201cI AM has sent me to you!\u2019\u201d Moses\u2019 answer to the people can only reflect what God has revealed to him. He knows no more of God\u2019s intention than has been revealed in the formula. The people also will experience God\u2019s purpose by what he does in their future. But the God who has made known his reality has sent his messenger as the medium through whom the divine purpose will begin to work. Once the significance of the name has been explained, the ineffable name itself is given in a sentence which parallels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/bible\/?query=Ex+3%3A14&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">v. 14b<\/a>: Yahweh is the God of the Fathers. He is the one who sent Moses. The people\u2019s question has been directly answered, but first the intention which it contained was carefully defined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final phrase of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/bible\/?query=Ex+3%3A15&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">v. 15<\/a> indicated by its shift in person is again addressed to Moses: \u2018This is my name for ever and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.\u2019 God\u2019s answer began with Moses. It now draws the theological implications for the revelation far beyond the immediate concern of Moses\u2019 original question. God has revealed himself to Moses in his eternal name. This is the name which will then be cultically remembered by his people throughout the generations. The revelation of the name in Israel is not to satisfy curiosity, but to be the medium of continuous worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Keep Reading the Old and New Testament Library<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.olivetree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OldandNewTestamentLibraryCommentaryBookSetSocial-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OldandNewTestamentLibraryCommentaryBookSetSocial-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OldandNewTestamentLibraryCommentaryBookSetSocial-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OldandNewTestamentLibraryCommentaryBookSetSocial-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OldandNewTestamentLibraryCommentaryBookSetSocial-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/store\/product.php?productid=77400\">The Old and New Testament Library<\/a> series is an extensive commentary on the whole Bible. Volumes in this series include commentaries on the books of the Bible and theological topics. Visit our website where you can purchase the volume on Exodus mentioned above or learn more about the entire series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/store\/product.php?productid=77400\" style=\"background-color:#77aa3c\">OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT LIBRARY<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The revelation of the Divine Name (\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; YHWH or Yahweh) occurs in the context of the call of Moses. Interestingly, God reveals his name in an answer to an objection raised by Moses. Moses is reluctant to be the rescuer of the Israelites enslaved in Egypt. 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