'Egypt My People ... and Israel My Inheritance'Few parts of the Old Testament are more challenging to read than the prophets. Not only are so called messianic passages relatively rare, but apart from Jonah, these books seem to present a message that is particularly negative, if not xenophobic, when it comes to the 'nations.' Daniel Timmer contends that this impression is not only mistaken but diametrically opposed to the books' message. Following the direction established by God's foundational