CASB 4: The Book of Genesis, 1-11

Genesis is where the modern assault on Scripture begins, and where a Catholic most needs solid ground. This fourth volume of the CASB series offers one of the most exegetically detailed treatments of Genesis ever produced for the Catholic reader. Its 710 pages open with a fresh, literal, word-for-word translation drawn from the original Hebrew and the Greek Septuagint, and go deeply into the grammatical nuances and the historical background, all with the readability that marks the CASB series.

The method proves especially rewarding across chapters 1 through 11. The detailed exegesis brings fresh insight to the varying creation accounts, the Fall, the genealogies, the Sons of God, the Nephilim, Noah's flood, and much more. As in every CASB volume, it includes detailed and comprehensive apologetics commentaries, here touching 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 all the Fathers' and medievals' views on questions 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, the reader is equipped to answer not only the secular critics of Genesis who have arisen since the time of Darwin, but also the churchmen who, under the pressure of modern science, have all but surrendered Genesis to myth and metaphor. A worthy addition to any library.