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Article

Becoming Israelite: Joshua 5:2–9 as the Final Stage of Shedding Egyptian Mores

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Joshua Seth Houston
Independent Researcher, Bell Buckle, TN 37020, USA
Religions 2024, 15(8), 935; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15080935
Submission received: 26 June 2024 / Revised: 9 July 2024 / Accepted: 30 July 2024 / Published: 1 August 2024
(This article belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
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Abstract

The exodus event demonstrates a culture and religious shift from an Egyptian context to that of national Israel. Scholars have underplayed the influence of Egypt on Israel during the exodus while overplaying the influence of Canaan. To be sure, Canaanite mores influence the practices of the Israelites. However, the generation that left Egypt (according to the Biblical account) would have been assimilated to Egyptian mores. Thus, the present article seeks to establish the exodus event as the means by which Israel sheds its former Egyptian mores and becomes “national Israel”.
Keywords: circumcision; Hebrew Bible; Egypt; Israel; culture; historical criticism; Pentateuch circumcision; Hebrew Bible; Egypt; Israel; culture; historical criticism; Pentateuch

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Houston, J.S. Becoming Israelite: Joshua 5:2–9 as the Final Stage of Shedding Egyptian Mores. Religions 2024, 15, 935. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15080935

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Houston JS. Becoming Israelite: Joshua 5:2–9 as the Final Stage of Shedding Egyptian Mores. Religions. 2024; 15(8):935. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15080935

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Houston, Joshua Seth. 2024. "Becoming Israelite: Joshua 5:2–9 as the Final Stage of Shedding Egyptian Mores" Religions 15, no. 8: 935. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15080935

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Houston, J. S. (2024). Becoming Israelite: Joshua 5:2–9 as the Final Stage of Shedding Egyptian Mores. Religions, 15(8), 935. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15080935

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