The Revelation of the Name of God at Horeb as an Event of Liberation

Abstract

The key tradition of the revelation of the name of God at Horeb (Exodus 3:14) is to be understood as a paradigm of Israel’s experience of faith and monotheism and, in concurrence with Christoph Menke, is interpreted as an event and a formula for comprehending liberated humanness. The fascination of the encounter with God presents the possibility of difference in being and acting. The analysis of the possibility of hearing the command and the constant appeal through ‘the beingness of God with you’ are profiled as the inception of freedom, the creation of identity, and liberation, which promise to be to the image of God and encourage liberating acts as likeness. In this way, it becomes possible to make the core content of the event of revelation resound for people of the present through the leitmotif of liberation.