Expositor's Bible Commentary Volume 2

by John H. Sailhamer, Walter C. Kaiser Jr., R. Laird Harris

1008 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1990

About the author

Dr. Sailhamer has been teaching since 1975, most recently at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. He was President of The Evangelical Theological Society in 2000 and has published a number of books, including An Introduction to Old Testament Theology, The Pentateuch as Narrative: A Biblical-Theological Commentary, and Genesis: The Expositor's Bible Commentary, all from Zondervan. He has contributed a number of articles and book reviews in various biblical journals and has delivered several scholarly papers and particpated in several Old Testament Bible translation committees

Reviews

[David Campton · Rating 3 out of 5]

The second volume in the massive undertaking, with the first one being made up of background essays. As such this is the first volume that deals directly with the Biblical text. To date I have only read the first section by Sailhamer dealing with Genesis, and it stands fully within the conservative evangelical strand of thought. It offer rigorous academic analysis of the text and offers helpful pointers as to where the reader could do for further such detail, but I don't really see it as an expository commentary. It would not significantly help preachers in the application of the text, with the result that anyone using this solely as a starting point might offer a relatively dry lecture rather than a sermon, and one based on a conservative view of Genesis that perhaps puts it at odds with the views of many within various academic disciplines, and Jewish readings of their own foundational text. But not a bad starting point.