AUTHOR’S PREFACE I would like to express my appreciation to Professor Emeritus R. K. Harrison of Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, for his invitation to write the Genesis commentary for the NICOT series and for his counsel in preparing the manuscript. Although apprehensive at first about starting such a monumental project, I accepted the challenge after nudging and encouragement from my seminary mentor and now the President of Asbury College, Dr. Dennis Kinlaw. One reason for my hesitancy