Daily Study Bible Series: Genesis, Volume 2

by John C. L. Gibson

Publisher:

Westminster John Knox

, 1981

Overview

The Daily Study Bible Series: Genesis, Volume 2 The complete Daily Study Bible—Old Testament follows the brilliant pattern of William Barclay's popular Daily Study Bible—New Testament. Written by accomplished interpreters of the OT, these volumes combine the depth of scholarship, the critical style, and the grace that characterized Barclay's writing.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Here begins the disintegration of Lot, his descent not to the valley of ease and luxury but to ignominy and disaster as he becomes history’s first backslider from the faith, the man without the pilgrim spirit.” (Page 41)

“God’s people can live a life of faith in an alien environment” (Page 257)

“Joseph at every step that he turns him into a bit of a plaster-saint. We are not as moved as we ought to be. The flawed hero of chapter 37 has become flawless a little too soon. It is much the same in the next story of Joseph as the interpreter of dreams. We have to wait till in chapter 42 Joseph meets his brothers before the story-teller is sufficiently sure of himself to make his hero appear human and therefore less than perfect again.” (Page 248)

“The cry, then, that God was responding to was the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah’s victims, those who suffered sorely because the sin of these cities was ‘very grave’. It meant that he would—and does—hear the cry of the world’s ill-used, corrupted, and enslaved millions pleading in their agony and lostness for justice and redress.” (Page 79)

“In stark contrast to the preceding story of Abraham in Egypt, in which his self-centredness is exposed and the irony of his punishment at Pharaoh’s hand subtly underlined, this story of Abraham’s renunciation of his right as the senior to choose where to settle shows him recovering the secret of his faith.” (Pages 38–39)

Product Details

• Title: Genesis, Volume 2
• Author: John C. L. Gibson
• Series: Daily Study Bible Series
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox
• Print Publication Date: 1981
• Logos Release Date: 2001
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Genesis › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:29.6.10
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-09T22:47:06Z