Geoffrey D. Claussen, “‘I Will Be With Them’: God at the Burning Bush as an Ideal of Compassion for all Creatures,” in Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, ed. David Birnbaum and Martin S. Cohen (New York: New Paradigm Matrix Publishing, 2019), pp. 241–264.
In this essay, available online
here, I consider God as the ideal of compassion for all sentient beings. I ground this theology in the narrative of Moses’s encounter with God at the burning bush, as described in the third chapter of the Book of Exodus and in classical midrashic texts.
