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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...

Within Genesis as a whole as the backstory to Yahweh’s involvement with Israel, the immediate backstory to that narrative is the promises Yahweh made to Israel’s ancestors, which include the idea that all earth’s families are to seek the blessing that came to these ancestors (e.g., 12:3). The further backstory to Gen. 11:27–50:26 is God’s dealings with the world as a whole. These dealings are the subject of Gen. 1:1–11:26. It
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