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

James Gracey Murphy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331097878 ISBN 13 : 9781331097877

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

Is 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 swork 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 philosophic;!, 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 cxegedeal 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 stop 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.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331097878
• ISBN 13: 9781331097877
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 537
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