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Highly regarded Old Testament scholar John Goldingay offers a substantive and useful commentary on the book of Genesis that is both critically engaged and sensitive to the theological contributions of the text. This volume, the first in a new series on the Pentateuch, complements the successful Baker Commentary on the Old Testament: Wisdom and Psalms series (series volumes have sold over 55,000...

Humanity’s spoiling of the world in modern times has been blamed on the alleged anthropocentrism of Gen. 1. One consideration that makes this charge implausible is that it apparently took two or three millennia for the creation story to have this effect, which suggests that other ideological factors were at work in the spoiling.169 Indeed, one might reverse the accusation: “the order of the cosmos portrayed in Genesis has been unprecedentedly disrupted by modern humanity’s scientific-technological
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