"All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them."

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While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.

— Walter Brueggemann