Welcome. We're Scott and Maureen Proctor and this is Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast,

where today we'll study Exodus, chapters 14 through 18, at that miraculous moment in the history

of the children of Israel where the Lord parts the Red Sea, and they

pass through on dry ground in an ultimate triumph for the Lord over Egypt.

Now, we have with us today, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. He has a PhD in cognitive science, but is

particularly known by Latter-day Saints for his detailed commentaries on the Old

Testament, the Pearl of Great Price, and Temple themes in Scripture. He and his wife Kathleen

are the parents of four children and many grandchildren, and have served missions in the

Democratic Republic of Congo, both in the Mission Office and in the Kinshasa Temple.

If Jeff writes anything on Meridian, we always want to read it, and we're glad to have you with us today, Jeff.

Welcome.

There's just tons of questions there that we could explore in Exodus.

But for some reason, this afternoon, partly I think under the influence of a wonderful essay I read that Maureen shared with me earlier,

I've just been more focusing on the personal side. So I think we'll post some articles on that in the coming weeks about Exodus.

And I would recommend one book to you if you really want to find

something that has kind of the latest scholarship on the Exodus but is also I

think from fairly believing folks it's called five views on the Exodus

historicity chronology and theological implications and the editors are

J-A-N-Z-E-N and G-U-N-D-R-Y and it's got some great

scholarship in their perspectives on the Exodus leaving that aside I guess one of the

things I just thought of an hour ago that I really like to share with you is from

Ralph von Williams wonderful 1906 English hymnal.

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