“Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and YHWH your God brought you out from there with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm...”( Deuteronomy 5:15). Two Egyptian motifs—military dominance and divine benevolence—lie behind this image of YHWH.The motifs of the hand and arm of the Lord continued to develop during and after the biblical period in sometimes surprising ways. For an overview of some of them, see here.
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