Genesis 1-15, Volume 1 (1) (Word Biblical Commentary)

✍ Scribed by Gordon John Wenham, David Allen Hubbard (editor), Glenn W. Barker (editor)

• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 408
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship.

Overview of Commentary Organization

• Introduction—covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues, purpose, and theology.
• Each section of the commentary includes:
• Pericope Bibliography—a helpful resource containing the most important works that pertain to each particular pericope.
• Translation—the author’s own translation of the biblical text, reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in reasonably good English.
• Notes—the author’s notes to the translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms, syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of translation.
• Form/Structure/Setting—a discussion of redaction, genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features important to understanding the passage are also introduced here.
• Comment—verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly research.
• Explanation—brings together all the results of the discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.
  • General Bibliography—occurring at the end of each volume, this extensive bibliography contains all sources used anywhere in the commentary.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Author’s Preface
Editorial Preface
Abbreviations
Main Bibliography
Introduction
Name and Contents
Text of Genesis
Genesis In Recent Research
J: The Yahwistic Source
E: The Elohistic Source
P: The Priestly Source
The New Literary Criticism
Evaluation of Current Critical Positions
Literary and Source Criticism
Source Criticism
Date
Theology of Genesis 1–11
Genesis 1–11 and the Ancient Near East
Genesis 1–11 and the Rest of the Book
Genesis 1–11 and Modern Thought
Text and Commentary
In the Beginning (1:1–2:3)
The Garden of Eden (2:4–3:24)
The First Human Family (4:1–26)
Adam’s Family Tree (5:1–32)
Spirit-Human Marriages and Their Aftermath (6:1–8)
The Story of Noah (6:9–9:29)
Blessing On the New Humanity (9:1–17)
Coda to the Noah Story (9:18–29)
From Flood to Babel (10:1–11:9)
The Table of the Nations (10:1–32)
The Tower of Babel (11:1–9)
The Family History of Shem (11:10–26)
Patriarchal History (12–50)
The Story of Abraham (11:27–25:11)
The Call of Abram (11:27–12:9)
Abram In Egypt (12:10–20)
Abram and Lot Separate (13:1–18)
Abram Rescues Lot (14:1–24)
The Covenant Promise (15:1–21)
Indexes
Index of Authors Cited
Index of Principal Subjects
Index of Biblical Texts
Index of Key Hebrew Words