{"product_id":"exodus-9780836191349","title":"Exodus","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo whom does primary allegiance belong? To great human empires, or to the God whose elusive presence we can never fully grasp?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaldemar Janzen 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. The watching Israel wavers: \"Is the Lord among us or not?\" Even after Israel covenants to be God's priestly kingdom and holy nation, Israel worships a golden calf. Once more God's grace wrests Israel away, this time from slavery to doubts, fears, and self-centeredness. The people then focus faith on the imageless presence of God in their midst. God still wrestles for his people today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanzen, Waldemar:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaldemar Janzen was born in the Ukraine during the Stalin era. At the age of three, he lost his father, a Mennonite teacher and minister, to a Soviet concentration camp. In 1943, during World War II, he escaped with his mother to Germany, where he was a refugee until his immigration to Canada in 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe earned degrees of B.A. (University of Western Ontario), B.D. (Mennonite Biblical Seminary), M.A. (German; University of Manitoba), Th.M. (Old Testament; Harvard Divinity School), and Ph.D. (Near Eastern Languages and Literatures; Harvard University).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe served as academic dean at Canadian Mennonite Bible College for many years and he is currently Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and German, and continues to teach on a part-time basis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong Janzen's published works are \u003ci\u003eMourning Cry and Woe Oracle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStill in the Image: Essays in Old Testament Theology and Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOld Testament Ethics: A Paradigmatic Approach\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Herald Press (VA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413722698002,"sku":"9780836191349","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cd9b6ae1-26cb-46fb-8069-5f9a06903705.jpg?v=1729357698","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/exodus-9780836191349","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}