After three years, it is finally ready for publication!

In the Beginning: An Elaborative and Exciting Commentary on the Book of Genesis

I have neglected this blog from several months as I concentrated on completing this work and I think the result is spectacular (though I might be bias about my own work).

We are commanded to write our own Torah (Deuteronomy 31:19).  Torah is how Christ walked and he commanded we walk like him.  Knowing someone is essential to being able to love them.  Christ was the Word made flesh (John 1:14).  Can we fully know him if we do not know the Word?  Do we want to fully know him?

The Old Testament was all that Yeshua had – it was all the apostles had.  The apostles walked in the faith of Christ and we are commanded to do so, also (“He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.” – 1John 2:6).  Christ is throughout the Old Testament (even if he was not physically present) and the Gospels help us to recognize that evidence (evidence that I try to record in this commentary).  The New Testament supplements the Old Testament, it does not replace it (as if it was in error).

I have sought to examine each Verse and each word of each Verse, within my capabilities, for my learning.  I have written this to be engaging so anyone who begins reading it, at any point in the book, will become intrigued and continue – with the hope that it will spark a desire in you to do the same, so that you have a springboard for writing your own Torah.

Here are a few interesting topics that few question:

• Why a talking snake?
• What were the Nephilim and why did their presence necessitate a world-wide catastrophe?
• Why is Enoch the only person said to have “walked with Elohim”?
• How many decades did Noah take building the ark? What was it like to float across the face of the waters for many months
• Why did Noah curse his grandson when it was his son that sinned?
• How many sons did Abraham have?  Why so many?
• Why did Abraham send Eliezer to Haran with eight camels laden with treasure to get a wife for Isaac, but Isaac sent Jacob to Haran with nothing?
• Why did Esau sell his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup?
• Why didn’t Yahweh ever share with Jacob what happened to his beloved Joseph?

In the Beginning goes in-depth into the Scriptures. A careful examination of the Hebrew, of the historical accounts, of the extra-biblical texts, of the insights of scholars, of the science, and of our own capacity of reason yields a truly wonderful insight into the great men and women of faith.  They are not only our examples, but they were also the people our Savior looked to to strengthen his faith.

It is filled with charts, maps, artwork, and mirth (who decreed that the study of the Word must be stoic?). This is like no commentary you have every seen, and your commentary should be equally unique. I pray this provokes a deeper understanding of the Torah and inspires you to make the Word your own.

Thanks!