Perhaps you say, this is just a release of a book in paperback that has been around a while. While you’d be technically correct, you’d still be missing the point. Some commentaries are out of date in a few years while others last decades. Do you wonder why that is? It’s two things really: a) approach, and b) how well they say what they say. If you go hyper academic, you’ll be soon laid aside. If you can dig out what Scripture is really saying, that has more a timeless feel. You must, of course, be able to share penetrating thoughts in a way we can catch or you’ll fail over time as well even if your content is good. Victor Hamilton can do what it takes for a winning commentary. Being in a popular series, his Genesis is more well known, but this work is in that vein. Perhaps it’s more streamlined, but there’s real quality throughout. Back to this paperback release—any way to get a great commentary in a better deal is cause for celebration.

This commentary only concerns itself with what’s important. It’s not a devotional commentary that always runs to application, but rather one that so carefully draws out the theology that the application is obvious. Far and away, it’s best strength is the biblical theology that it provides. It wisely avoids critical minutia and goes hard after timeless insights into our story with God.

The exegesis is to the point and superb. Much learning guides this work more than learning just paraded through it. The commentary on each passage gives what I consider to be distinctly helpful.

Most people mention how this commentary is not in any major series, and that only proves it had nothing to prop it up. It’s just simply good. I’m so glad to have it.

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