Word: exoduses
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...Israelites fled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, God sent a strong wind to divide the waters of the Red Sea so they could escape Pharaoh's army. The Israelites marched on dry ground between two walls of water. Or did they? So it says in Exodus 14, and so it is depicted in Cecil B. De Mille's film The Ten Commandments. But most biblical scholars nowadays believe that the Exodus story, like such other Old Testament accounts as Jonah and the "great fish" and Adam and Eve, are not strictly historical but were embroidered much...
...board for a lifetime tenure appointment. The meeting was also attended by Church President Jacob Preus. Preus, former head of the Missouri Synod's other seminary, Concordia of Springfield, Ill., is a theological conservative who holds that the Bible is error-free and that such stories as the Exodus must be taken at face value...
...sent all Missouri Synod pastors and teachers his own five-page set of theological principles. In a covering letter Preus postulated a sort of Domino Theory: "It is only a short step from a denial of the miraculous elements surrounding the greatest redemptive act of the Old Testament (the Exodus) to a denial of ... the miracles of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Resurrection from the dead...
...would seriously weaken the House system. Meals are the best opportunity available for students and staff alike to meet one another and to interact in an informal and unstructured atmosphere. Rents at the rates being discussed, coupled with the increased financial burdens of teaching fellows, would lead to an exodus of resident staff. Graduate students who remained in the Houses would feel no compunction about considering themselves mere dormitory residents with no obligations to the House or its students--this is already happening in trial set-ups where graduate students pay regular dormitory rates...
...abject poverty, and he talked to a proud people bewildered by an America that had passed them by. And as the black southerners and the white mountain people traveled North, "up there," in search of a better job and a better life, Coles went with them and chronicled their exodus. The South Goes Nort, the third volume of Children of Crisis, documents the adjustments a rural people entering an urban, industrial setting must make in the face of the bewildering array of changes that confront them...