CORNERSTONE

BIBLICAL

COMMENTARY

Genesis

Allen Ross

Exodus

John N. Oswalt

GENERAL EDITOR

Philip W. Comfort

with the entire text of the

new living translation

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General Editor

Philip W. Comfort

D. Litt. et Phil., University of South Africa;

Tyndale House Publishers;

Coastal Carolina University.

Consulting Editor, Old Testament

Tremper Longman III

PhD, Yale University;

Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies, Westmont College.

Consulting Editor, New Testament

Grant Osborne

PhD, University of Aberdeen;

Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Associate Editors

Jason Driesbach

MA, Biblical Exegesis and Linguistics, Dallas Theological Seminary;

Tyndale House Publishers.

Mark R. Norton

MA, Theological Studies, Wheaton Graduate School;

Tyndale House Publishers.

James A. Swanson

MSM, Multnomah Biblical Seminary;

MTh, University of South Africa;

Tyndale House Publishers.

Cornerstone Biblical Commentary, Volume 1

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Genesis copyright © 2008 by Allen Ross. All rights reserved.

Exodus copyright © 2008 by John N. Oswalt. All rights reserved.

Designed by Luke Daab and Timothy R. Botts.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cornerstone biblical commentary.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8423-3427-3 (hc: alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-8423-3427-0 (hc: alk. paper)

1. Bible—Commentaries. I. Oswalt, John N. II. Ross, Allen P.

BS491.3.C67 2006

220.7´7—dc22 2005026928

Contents

Contributors to Volume 1

General Editor’s Preface

Abbreviations

Transliteration and Numbering System

GENESIS

EXODUS

CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 1

Genesis: Allen Ross

BA, Barrington College;

ThM, Dallas Theological Seminary;

ThD, Dallas Theological Seminary;

PhD, Cambridge University;

Postdoctoral study at Tübingen University and Cambridge University;

Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary.

Exodus: John N. Oswalt

BA, Taylor University;

BD, ThM, Asbury Theological Seminary;

MA, PhD, Brandeis University;

Research Professor of Old Testament at Wesley Biblical Seminary.

General Editor’s Preface

The Cornerstone Biblical Commentary is based on the second edition of the New Living Translation (2007). Nearly 100 scholars from various church backgrounds and from several countries (United States, Canada, England, and Australia) participated in the creation of the NLT. Many of these same scholars are contributors to this commentary series. All the commentators, whether participants in the NLT or not, believe that the ...