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영어

Exodus 1: 15-22, can be dialogically intertwined with Psalm 34 through intertextuality. Through the dialogue between the two texts we can recognize the deep shadow of hardship due to their protest against the pharaoh and hear the words of the Hebrew midwives’ agony. The “language of Psalms” in Psalm 34 are their language of fear and suffering caused by the pharaoh’s order to kill all male children. Psalm 34 can be a window, through which the Hebrew midwives can lament before God, and also a door for liberation and freedom from their hardship and fear. The suffering Hebrew Midwives due to the pharaoh’s killing order remember God, who hears their outcry and delivers them from hardships, and protest against the violence of the pharaoh. Through the discernment into their suffering, the Hebrew midwives overcome and change the fear of the pharaoh into the fear of God (Exod 1:17). The power of the Hebrew midwives’ protest comes from their fear of god. The protest which is expedited by the Hebrew midwives establishes itself as an empirical paradigm that can brake the violence of the pharaoh, so that they propose the fear of God as the way to end the violence of the pharaoh. In the beginning of Israel’s great long march of the Exodus, the fear of God works as the crucial factor for the liberation from hardships. At the same time it is the very beginning of the identity of the Israelite people.

한국어

본 논문은 상호텍스트성을 통하여 출애굽기 1장 15-22절과 시편 34편의 상호관계를 연구하고, 시편 34편을 파라오에 대한 두려움, 살인명령에 대한 공포로 곤고해진 히브리 산파들의 언어로 읽는다. 히브리 산파들은 ‘하나님 경외’사상으로 파라오에 저항하며, 그들의 후속세대에게 이를 파라오의 폭력을 종결시킬 수 있는 길로 제시하고 있는 현상을 밝힌다. 동시에 히브리 산파들의 고난의 결정적 해방 요인으로 작동한 하나님 경외 사상은 이스라엘 민족의 정체성으로 태동되고 있다는 것을 밝힌다.