Waldemar Janzen offers a fresh approach to the canonical structure
of Exodus. The liberation from Egypt is a prelude to Israel's
unique calling to model before the nations a new life of service
under God. Exodus portrays how God, through his servant Moses,
wages a dramatic battle with Egypt's mighty ruler for the release
of enslaved Israel. Yet as the battle rages, Israel stands apart as
a watching noncombatant, wavering between doubt and faith.
After wresting Israel from Pharaoh's enslavement, God fights for
the soul of his doubting and resistant people. They ask, "Is the
Lord among us or not?" Even after Israel's covenant commitment to
be God's "priestly kingdom and holy nation", Israel breaks away
again and worships a golden calf, a symbol of what is clear to the
senses.
In the end, God's grace wrests Israel away once more, this time
from captivity to its own doubts, fears, and self-centeredness. In
the last chapters, Exodus portrays a people focused in faith on the
imageless presence of God in its midst. Nevertheless, God still
wrestles for his people even today.
The book presents essays on themes useful for teaching,
preaching, and Bible study; bibliographies; charts; a map; and an
index. "Believers church" refers to churches in the Anabaptist
heritage of faith. The BCBC series is sponsored by six
denominations: Brethren Church, Church of the Brethren, Brethren in
Christ Church, General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite
Brethren Church, and Mennonite Church.
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