Genesis (The Story of God Bible Commentary | SGBC)
Overview
Genesis provides pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and lay people a clear and compelling exposition of the text in the context of the Bible’s overarching story—God’s story. Tremper Longman III moves away from “application” language, which has been criticized as being too simplistic, instead encouraging discussion of how Genesis and the Bible can be lived today.
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- Emphasizes the historical distance between the Bible and contemporary culture
- Encourages discussion of how the Bible’s story can be lived today
- Examines each book in the context of God’s story
Top Highlights
“This newly founded relationship has three parts, begininning with leaving parents, then a union of husband and wife, and finally becoming one flesh.” (Page 51)
“In the New Testament, Paul points out that to forget the Creator-creature distinction is the heart of idolatry” (Page 39)
“The proclamation of Genesis 1 is that God, and no other, created the cosmos.” (Page 38)
“Thus, the book of Genesis lays the foundation for all of the history of redemption. It starts by describing the creation of the cosmos and humanity. Humans live a life of blessing, which is soon disrupted by their own rebellion. But right from the start of their rebellion God begins his pursuit of restoration of blessing with his people.” (Page 16)
“The book talks about past events and to that extent can be called a work of history. However, its central concern is not politics or economics or military history, but rather it focuses on God’s relationship with his human creatures and eventually with Abraham and his descendants. In that sense, Genesis is a theological history.” (Page 7)
Offering a new type of application commentary for today’s context, the Story of God Bible Commentary series explains and illuminates Scripture as God’s story. Each biblical text is treated as though it were embedded in its canonical and historical setting to discern how to live out the story faithfully and creatively in the twenty-first century.
The authors of this series study and probe the Bible as God’s story, to discern and then articulate how we can live the Bible’s story faithfully and creatively in the culture today. This series offers vital tools for you to understand the original context of biblical passages; to carry insights from the biblical world and ancient Near Eastern literature straight into your context today; and finally, to empower you to discern and communicate biblical insight to your small group or congregation.
You’ll experience the uniqueness of The Story of God Bible Commentary as it helps you read the Bible in light of Christ’s incarnation, encounter theology of the great traditions of the church, and engage with faithful and insightful voices of the global church.
Each commentary is broken into three sections:
- Listen to the Story presents the Bible passage in the New International Version (NIV)
- Interpret the Story examines the passage for its essential message and meaning
- Live the Story explores how we can live this text in the world today. It offers insightful reflections, illustrations, and practical suggestions for daily Christian life and practice
Getting a story is about more than merely enjoying it. It means hearing it, understanding it, and above all, being impacted by it. This commentary series hopes that its readers not only hear and understand the story, but are impacted by it to live in as Christian a way as possible. The editors and contributors set that table very well and open up the biblical story in ways that move us to act with sensitivity and understanding. That makes hearing the story as these authors tell it well worth the time. Well done.
The Bible is the story of God and his dealings with humanity from creation to new creation. The Bible is made up more of stories than of any other literary genre. Even the psalms, proverbs, prophecies, letters, and the Apocalypse make complete sense only when set in the context of the grand narrative of the entire Bible. This commentary series breaks new ground by taking all these observations seriously. It asks commentators to listen to the text, to explain the text, and to live the text. Some of the material in these sections overlaps with introduction, detailed textual analysis and application, respectively, but only some. The most riveting and valuable part of the commentaries are the stories that can appear in any of these sections, from any part of the globe and any part of church history, illustrating the text in any of these areas. Ideal for preaching and teaching.
- Title: Genesis
- Author: Tremper Longman III
- Series: The Story of God Bible Commentary
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Genesis › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9780310496090, 9780310496076, 9780310496083, 0310496098, 0310496071, 031049608X
- Resource ID: LLS:STRYGDCM01GE
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-09-26T21:33:49Z
Tremper Longman III serves as Distinguished Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Westmont College. He has written over 35 books, including commentaries on Genesis, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Daniel, Nahum, and Revelation. His books have been translated into 18 different languages. In addition, as a Hebrew scholar, he is one of the main translators of the popular New Living Translation, and has served as a consultant on other popular Bible translations, including The Message, the New Century Version, the Christian Standard Bible, and the Common Bible. He has also edited and contributed to a number of study Bibles and Bible dictionaries, most recently The Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary.
He earned his BA from Ohio Wesleyan University, his MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary, and both his MPhil and PhD from Yale University. Dr. Longman and his wife, Alice, have three sons and eight grandchildren.