George, Howard and Graham,
thanks for the suggestions.
I'll see if I can check these book at Amazon.
(I guess I mixed Conzelmann with Westermann.)
Regards from Inge
At 06:52 18.04.00 -0400, George Murphy wrote:
>Inge Frette wrote:
> >
> > Hello folks,
> > I am thinking of getting a good commentary on Genesis.
> > Anyone that can recommend one for me ?
> >
> > If possible the commentary
> > - should have been written by a christian scholar,
> > - should be highly regarded among biblical scholars
> > - should include discussion about natural science
> > when dealing with the first chapters of Genesis
> >
> > Does a book like this exist ? If I recall scholars like
> > Wenham and Conzelmann has written books on
> > Genesis. Are these books recommended ?
>
>Inge - A very thorough commentary is that of Claus Westermann, an English
>translation
>of which was published in three volumes by Augsburg in 1984 (or at least
>that's the date
>for the first volume, _Genesis 1:1-11: A Commentary_. I don't have the
>data for the
>German original at hand. A somewhat older and less detailed one is
>Gerhard von Rad,
>_Genesis: A Commentary_ (Westminster, Philadelphia, 1972), a translation
>of the 9th
>German edition.
> These don't deal with issues of natural science, such as physical
> cosmology or
>biological evolution in any detail. There may be commentaries which deal
>with those
>matters in an adequate way, but I suspect that most which attempt to do so
>will be in
>pursuit of some sort of concordist interpretation which is ultimately
>unhelpful.
> Shalom,
> George
>
>
> >
> > Regards from Inge
> >
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