CASB 4: The Book of Genesis, 1-11

CASB 4: The Book of Genesis, 1-11

If any book of the Bible is fought over today, it is Genesis, and this fourth volume of the CASB series gives it one of the most exegetically detailed treatments ever produced for the Catholic market. Its 710 pages open with a fresh, word-for-word translation drawn from the original Hebrew and the Greek Septuagint, then go deep into the grammar and the contextual background as few commentaries have, while keeping the ease of reading readers have come to expect from the series.

The method proves especially useful in the most contested chapters, 1 through 11. The detailed exegesis offers fresh insight into the varying creation accounts, the Fall, the genealogies, the Sons of God, the Nephilim, and Noah's flood. As with every CASB volume, it also carries thorough Apologetics Commentaries, taking up creation versus evolution, the Documentary Hypothesis, the date of Adam, the firmament, and geocentrism, with special sections on Augustine and Blessed Hildegard, and a catalogue of the Fathers' and medievals' views on everything from the length of the Genesis day to the sphericity of the earth. Also included are 200 pages of dialogues between the author and various secular and theistic evolutionists.

With what this volume provides, you will be well equipped to answer not only the secular critics of Genesis since Darwin, but also the clergy who, pressed by modern science, have quietly handed Genesis over to myth and metaphor. A must for your library.