Monday, September 17, 2018

Free Genesis 1-11 Commentary

Bible Lessons International has made available a number of Bible commentaries that appear to provide a high quality guide to help with the interpretation of Scripture from what appears to be a solidly Biblical perspective.  The resource on Genesis 1-11 is a treasure mine of information available as a downloadable PDF file.

One point the author makes is that the job of interpretation lies with you, the reader, not with the commentator.  To this end, this resource does not try to interpret the text for you, but rather provide information relevant to the task of interpreting.

Furthermore, in our context of "creation", this resource does not take a strong position regarding the age of the earth, the length of the creation days, or even the extent of Noah's flood, but does provide insight into the meaning of the words in the relevant passages.

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