Nathan Albright’s review of Meredith Kline’s commentary on Genesis does excellent justice to this noteworthy book.
A quote from the review that I particularly enjoyed: “The author’s unwillingness to exceed the firm foundation of his text and his generally charitable attitude towards the reader make this book feel like one is listening to the author give a friendly graduate seminar or a conversation over dinner while pouring over the Bible in English, Hebrew, and the Greek. While such an experience is no longer possible in this life, this book is the next best thing and a worthy introduction to the works of a worthy biblical scholar.”
Genesis: A New Commentary, by Meredith G. Kline
[Note: This book was provided free of charge by Hendrickson Publishers. All thoughts and opinions are my own.]
Upon reading this book, I was somewhat surprised that this was the first book I remember reading from the noted and late Presbyterian theologian. Upon reading, for example, his breakdown of the chiasmic structure of the book of Genesis, I was immediately reminded of previous readings of books likely influenced by his instruction of other conservative Presbyterians [1] in decades of faithful teaching work. Given the fact that this work was a very refreshing and thoughtful commentary on the book of Genesis, although given that Kline has been dead for eight years, it is hard to tell how new this commentary is in some senses, it is likely that this will not be the last book I read from this author by any means…
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