Genesis 1-11
By: commentary by Robert Davidson.
Contributors: Davidson, Robert, M.A.
Series: The Cambridge Bible commentary: New English Bible
Publisher: University Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
Subjects: Bible. O.T. Genesis I-XI -- Commentaries
Description: Chapters 1-11 of Genesis are like a poetic prologue to the early history of the Jewish people and to their religion. For Christianity also they later fulfil a similar purpose. Professor Davidson takes these chapters as a separate unity, comments on them, and explains their religious significance and their place in the Bible as a whole. Introductory sections on the sources and purpose of the book, and the meaning of myth, lead straight into the text and commentary which alternate with each other in the style of the series.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 113.