Pawłowski, Zdzisław (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, 2017)
The article postulates a narrative reading of Exodus 2:1–3:15 as a more appropriate one than a historical-critical reading focused on the composite origin and the literary evolution of the text. The text in the several well-thought episodes creates a narrative identity of Moses in its multi-faceted form. In his lifespan he has been subjected to the influence of three religions: Egyptian, Hebrew, and Midian. All of them are challenged in the call narrative (Ex 3:1-15). Searching for the meaning of a common desert bush on fire Moses is looking for a significance of his entire life. At the same time however he encounters God in a radically new form, adequate to his narrative identity. Thus the new identity of God and of Moses interweave with each other in one formula: I AM has sent me to you (Ex 3:14).
