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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 God who speaks to Moses knows him by name, even while Moses fumbles about. Moses is overwhelmed by awe at this fearful confrontation that has stopped him short in his daily routine. God is the one who takes the initiative to relate the new to the familiar. God, confronting Moses so unexpectedly, is the God of your father (3:6). The expression the God of your fathers [plural; NRSV: ancestors], the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, is a standard formula to designate God, and it appears repeatedly
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