Biblical interpreters across the millennia have noticed that the exodus does not end in its eponymous biblical book. With so many insightful readers offering astute observations on exodus themes, what more could yet another biblical scholar add? In this fine volume, Morales offers a fresh, coherent, and streamlined articulation of exodus themes, centering on resurrection, from Genesis to Revelation.As part of the Essential Studies in Biblical Theology series, this volume is an accessible entrée for “beginning students of theology, church leaders, and laypeople” (p. x). It is written in an approachable manner, with stories, illustrations, figures, and hymns scattered throughout, minimal footnotes, and technical language kept to a minimum or clearly defined. Indeed, the final chapter almost reads more like a sermon crescendo than an academic book. Methodologically, Morales writes from an evangelical, Reformed, canonical, text-centered perspective. The volume focuses on close readings of biblical texts, supported occasionally by interpreters spanning the centuries: ancient rabbis, Reformers, and biblical scholars of the past century. While canonical, the study is not heavy-handedly Christocentric. As the biblical text unfolds gradually, Morales attends to the specific nuances of each OT stage, while occasionally anticipating their fulfillments in Jesus.Morales claims that the exodus is God’s paradigm (or pattern) of salvation and that it is therefore a central theme of biblical theology (e.g., pp. 4–5, 15, 65, 160, 171–72). This is demonstrated across the book’s three sections. Part 1 addresses the exodus from Egypt. Genesis prefigures the exodus story through its portrayal of exile from Eden as the fundamental problem for humanity (ch. 1). This is mirrored in Exodus through the nations’ lack of knowledge of Yahweh (an exile) as the basic problem which the exodus will alleviate (ch. 2). Then motifs of sea dragon, paschal lamb and later sacrificial functions, and Moses as mediator are examined (chs. 3–7). Part 2 explores the second exodus anticipated by the OT prophets, which is an “escalation” of the first exodus (p. 121). After summarizing OT history from the exodus through the exile (ch. 8) and the prophetic expectation for a new exodus (ch. 9), Morales focuses on the redemptive function of Isaiah’s suffering servant (ch. 10) and the servant’s identification as a divine Moses-like second David who will usher in the age of the Spirit (ch. 11). Part 3 illuminates the coming of Jesus as a new exodus. The Fourth Gospel was a surprising focus for this part, given how much has been written about Mark in this regard. But John’s identification of Jesus as the Paschal Lamb and the coming of the Spirit as fulfilling the prophetic expectations for a second exodus were compelling reasons to choose this Gospel. The final chapter is an explication of the theme of resurrection as the ultimate exodus hope through a sermonic reflection on Pauline texts.Morales holds a maximalist view of exodus themes, terms, motifs, and traditions. For him, the exodus entails not only the departure from Egypt, but also “the wilderness journeys and the inheritance of life in the good land” (p. 4), though this book is limited to the first stage (p. 107). But even that first stage alone is understood more deeply as a new creation (p. 80), a reversal of exile, a resurrection from the dead (pp. 16, 78-81, 185–96), a return to God (p. 7), and a return to the Father’s household (p. 173). The exodus is closely tied to OT sacrificial practices (ch. 7), the suffering Servant (chs. 10–11), and the coming of the Holy Spirit (ch. 13). Statements that integrate many of these aspects are frequent (e.g., p. 171).With such a comprehensive understanding of the exodus motif, one wonders if anything in the Bible is not somehow related to the exodus, and in that case whether the term has become so inclusive as to begin to lose meaning. On the other hand, the task of biblical theology—a task to which this book contributes—is that of synthesizing many aspects of the Bible’s theology. In that case, such comprehensiveness could be seen as a strength.The book so focuses on resurrection as the essence of exodus that the exodus (both old and new) almost becomes a mere cypher that loses its own particularities and nuanced contributions. Though Morales says he wants to avoid otherworldly escapism (p. 191), in my view he focuses too exclusively on the admittedly important spiritual aspects of the exodus motif (that is, resurrection and return to fellowship with God) to the exclusion of political, social, economic, and other aspects of the historical exodus. Notwithstanding his acknowledgements of these aspects (e.g., pp. 37–38), Morales says that the “real significance” of the historical exodus was “theology” (p. 53) rather than, say, rescue from slavery.One of the strengths of such an accessible volume is a clear, cogent, and briskly progressing argument that does not get lost in the weeds of scholarly details (or, for that matter, any alternative views!) While drawing on previous scholarship, this book is certainly Morales’s unique integrated perspective on the biblical exodus motif. (I found chapters 7 and 8 to be a bit tangential, but I can see how they might be beneficial for beginning students.) Indeed, I learned much about the details of many passages from Morales’s insightful and sensitive readings. Though one might nitpick over details, one cannot escape Morales’s very strong cumulative case that much of the Bible is connected to anticipating, describing, or extending an exodus out of exile which is ultimately a resurrection into a new creation with God through a mediator. His argument is supported throughout by clear reasoning and explicit biblical evidence that most readers could easily follow.This book would be an excellent text for undergraduate or graduate courses and for church-based studies. Scholars and pastors as well will find many exegetical insights in these pages, though they may occasionally wish for more references and opposing viewpoints. Morales is to be commended for an excellent study that draws on centuries of biblical reflection and extends beyond them into important new contributions.