Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary

by Andrew E. Steinmann, David G. Firth (Editor), Tremper Longman, III (Editor)

Overview

Biblical Foundations Award Finalist

Genesis is a book of origins: of the world, of sin, of God's promise of redemption, and of the people of Israel. It traces God's pledge of a Savior through Abraham's line down to his great-grandson Judah. It serves as a foundation for the New Testament and its teaching that Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promise to save humankind from sin and death. In this Tyndale Commentary, Andrew Steinmann offers a thorough exegetical commentary on Genesis, including a reconstructed timeline of events from Abraham's life through to the death of Joseph. The Tyndale Commentaries are designed to help the reader of the Bible understand what the text says and what it means. The Introduction to each book gives a concise but thorough treatment of its authorship, date, original setting, and purpose. Following a structural Analysis, the Commentary takes the book section by section, drawing out its main themes, and also comments on individual verses and problems of interpretation. Additional Notes provide fuller discussion of particular difficulties. In the new Old Testament volumes, the commentary on each section of the text is structured under three headings: Context, Comment, and Meaning. The goal is to explain the true meaning of the Bible and make its message plain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780830842513
Publisher:	InterVarsity Press
Publication date:	08/20/2019
Series:	Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Andrew E. Steinmann is distinguished professor of theology and Hebrew at Concordia University in Chicago. He is the author of numerous books including From Abraham to Paul and commentaries on 1 and 2 Samuel, Ezra and Nehemiah, Proverbs, and Daniel.

David Firth is Old Testament tutor and B.A. course leader at Cliff College, Derbyshire. He is the author of Responses to Violence in Complaint Psalms of the Individual (forthcoming).

Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is also visiting professor of Old Testament at Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and adjunct of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. He lectures regularly at Regent College in Vancouver and the Canadian Theological Seminary in Calgary. Longman is the author or coauthor of over twenty books, including How to Read Genesis, How to Read the Psalms, How to Read Proverbs, Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation, Old Testament Essentials and coeditor of A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible. He and Dan Allender have coauthored Bold Love, Cry of the Soul, Intimate Allies, The Intimate Mystery and the Intimate Marriage Bible studies.

Table of Contents

General preface
Author’s preface
Abbreviations
Select bibliography
Introduction
1. Genesis as the foundational book of the Old Testament
2. Authorship, composition and date
3. Literary features of Genesis
4. Historical and archaeological issues
5. Theological themes in Genesis
6. Genesis as a witness to the promised Saviour
7. Sin and grace in Genesis
8. Conclusion
Analysis
Commentary
Additional notes