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Waldemar Janzen (Mennonite Church) offers a fresh approach to the book 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. After wresting Israel from Pharaoh's enslavement,...

The events of this section link the preceding mighty acts of God in Egypt with God’s new self-manifestation through mighty acts in the wilderness. The aim of the book of Exodus as a whole is to answer the double question: Who is God/the LORD (Yahweh), and to which master does Israel (and ultimately, all creation) properly belong, Yahweh or Pharaoh? (“Introduction,” 24). The victory of the LORD has become evident and effective in the tenth
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