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For more than twenty years, Victor Hamilton’s handbook has been introducing students to the Pentateuch. In this substantially revised second edition, Hamilton moves chapter by chapter, rather than verse by verse, through the Pentateuch. He examines the content, structure, and theology and provides useful commentary on overarching themes and connections between Old Testament texts. For those who...

I suggest that the same dual emphases continue throughout chs. 4–11. We will see in operation both sin and judgment and grace and promise. Neither the sin of individuals (Cain, Lamech, and Ham) nor of groups (sons of God and daughters of men, the whole earth, and the builders of the city and the tower) eclipses completely the mercy and sovereignty of God. Here too, where sin abounds, grace much more abounds. Obviously, there is no break between chs. 3 and 4 of Genesis. The narrative
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