Westminster Bible Companion: Exodus
Overview
The book of Exodus is literally a story about "going out," and as such, it touches on something all of us have in common: each of our lives is marked by different kinds of goings out and comings in. J. Gerald Janzen reads the Exodus story as both the story of a particular people and a revelation of God's concern for the liberation and redemption of all people. The lessons of Exodus are encouraging because they hold out hope for all who are oppressed by forces over which they have no control. But the lessons are sobering also, because they caution the liberated not to perpetuate the evils under which they suffered.
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- Explores various topics such as oppression, redemption, hope, and sin
- Discusses God’s concern for the liberation and redmeption of all people
- Provides readers with a helpful interpretation of Exodus
- Oppression, Redemption, Covenant: Exodus 1–24
- Planning a Place for Presence: Exodus 25–31
- Sin, Redemption, Covenant: Exodus 32–34
- Preparing a Place for Presence: Exodus 35–40
Top Highlights
“Exodus, indeed the Bible as a whole, connects freedom and law in the deepest way. So deeply are they connected that one does not ‘know’ freedom fully nor ‘know’ the God who frees until one has entered into covenant with this God and accepted the claims of that covenant as defining what freedom is for. The purpose of covenant law is to give freedom ethical shape. It is to educate the covenant community into a freedom that images God in how the members of that community relate to God and to one another. Without covenant law, freedom allows the powerful to rule unbridled by justice and leaves the powerless at their mercy.” (Page 54)
“If God’s redemptive coming down into our lives can take the form of revelation, that revelation need not be a disclosure of other-worldly mysteries but simply God enabling us to look at our this-worldly situation ‘under a different pretext,’ the way God sees it. That ‘pretext’ is the redemptive memory and compassionate faithfulness of God, into which revelation draws us and by which it sends us.” (Page 30)
“Like Cain, Egypt fails the challenge. Instead of searching for an inclusive wisdom that will embrace the legitimate interests of all, Egyptian and alien alike, the Pharaoh falls back into an ‘us versus them’ wisdom.” (Page 17)
“Does Moses encourage the people because he himself is free from fear and filled with confidence? Apparently not. For God asks Moses, ‘Why do you cry out to me?’” (Page 101)
“God’s aim and desire are not simply to bring us into a land but to bring us into intimate relation to God” (Pages 54–55)
Janzen has succeeded in producing an interpretation of Exodus that will help general readers appreciate some of the literary intricacies of the book and to understand some of the themes that run throughout the biblical texts.
—E. Theodore Mullen, Review of Biblical Literature
- Title: Exodus
- Author: J. Gerald Janzen
- Series: Westminster Bible Companion
- Publisher: Westminster John Knox
- Print Publication Date: 1997
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 288
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Exodus › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:WBCS02EX
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T01:13:59Z
