A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Genesis: With a New Translation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Gracey Murphy, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331097878 ISBN 13: 9781331097877

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of GenesisAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. This text has been digitally restored from a historical edition. Some errors may persist, however we consider it worth publishing due to the work's historical value.The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase.

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Excerpt from A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Genesis: With a New Translation

In treating of the deluge, Dr. Murphy shows that all the requirements of the Hebrew text are met by the supposition of a flood which covered the portion of the earth's surface then known to man; and that the sobriety and historical veracity of the narrative are strikingly exhibited in the moder ate height to which the waters are said to have risen above the ancient hills. It is doubtful, however, whether it would re lieve the difficulties pertaining to the account of the creation, were we there to limit the earth to so much of the surface of our globe as was known by observation in the time of Moses. This notion was pressed to an extreme by Dr. Pye Smith, in the supposition of a partial chaos in the region of the land of Eden. I do not understand Dr. Murphy, however, to limit the term earth, in Gen. I. 2, any further than by insisting that the desolation and disorder are limited in their range to the land, and do not extend to the skies. He lays down a true principle of interpretation when he says, further, that along with the sky and its conspicuous objects, the land then known to the primeval man formed the sum total of the observable universe. These two terms - the heavens and the earth - have not even yet arrived at their full complement of meaning; and it was not the object or the effect of divine revelation to anticipate science on these points.

It is enough for the purpose of silencing scientific, or rather unscientific cavils against the inspiration of Genesis, that we show there is no real contradiction, but a substantial agree ment, between the Mosaic cosmogony and the established truths of physical science. Professor Dana has shown conclusively.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Genesis: With a New Translation

In introducing to the American public Dr. Murphy's Commentary on Genesis, I would commend it as a timely antidote to much of the negative and destructive criticism upon the Pentateuch which has so largely obtained in Germany, and of late in England also, rather than as a complete solution of the many and vexed questions in language, in science, and in history which pertain to the so-called "Books of Moses." The merits of Dr. Murphy's work are a nice critical analysis of the text, a candid consideration of all alleged difficulties, a common-sense view of the principles of interpretation, and a philosophical clearness and comprehensiveness in the statement of inference or of doctrine. It consists of an exact literal translation of such passages as contain either verbal or grammatical difficulties, and of a critical and exegetical commentary, based upon the grammatical construction of the text, and framed in view of the best lights of modern criticism and science. Thus, in the narratives of the creation and the deluge, our author unfolds step by step the literal meaning of the sacred writer, and evolves from the Hebrew a sense which well accords with the facts of astronomical and geological science.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1331097878
• ISBN 13: 9781331097877
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 542
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