On the Mountain with God: Freedom and Community in Exodusby Mark W. Hamilton Description The book of Exodus tells the story of Israel's liberation from Egyptian bondage and its formation as a nation. Though at one level an epic of origins for a nation, Exodus transcends its time and place as it bears witness to God's desire to fashion a people who can live sane and holy lives in community with each other and in harmony with God. Yet Exodus recognizes that this reality is hard won and always precarious.