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A Commentary on the Book of Genesis: Part I, From Adam to Noah (Genesis I–VI 8) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The aim of this commentary is to explain, with the help of a historico-philological method of interpretation, the simple meaning of the Biblical text, and to arrive, as nearly as possible, at the meaning the words of the Torah were intended to have for the reader at the time they were written. The present work is rich in original insights and scholarly illuminations that make it an invaluable...

And there was light] It is a basic rule of style in ancient epic poetry that after citing the words of the command or charge given by any one, the poet repeats the ipsissima verba of the directive when relating that it had been fulfilled. In the Introduction to this section (§ 6, p. 16), I have indicated how this literary convention, subject to certain modifications, continues in the prose style of Bible narrative. In the present verse, this formal repetition assumes its tersest form (fiat: ‘Let
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