Genesis 15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Bible Study & Commentary

Introduction

Genesis 15. The Promise to Abraham of an Heir and the Land.— The analysis presents well-nigh insoluble difficulties, and critics are much divided as to details. It is generally agreed that elements from J and E have been combined, this being the first instance where E can be definitely traced. The opening of E is no longer preserved; the editor began to draw on it at the point where he found it serviceable. The story in Genesis 15:7 ff. is not a continuation of that in Genesis 15:1-Joshua :. The latter takes place by night ( Genesis 15:5), the former begins in the daytime and ends after sunset. Twice over we have a promise of great prosperity. In Genesis 15:6 Abraham trusts God’ s promise; it is strange that in Genesis 15:8 he asks for it to be confirmed. Genesis 15:7 is also more natural at the beginning than in the middle of a revelation. But Genesis 15:1-Joshua : is not itself a unity. “ Yahweh” points to J, “ in a vision” to E. Genesis 15:2 a and Genesis 15:3 a are practically doublets of Genesis 15:2 b and Genesis 15:3 b. But no agreement has been reached as to the analysis. Genesis 15:7-Ecclesiastes : exhibits slight traces of E, but consists for the most part of J and later expansions. The chapter records how, in response to Abraham’ s misgivings, Yahweh promises him an heir and an innumerable posterity, and makes a covenant with him to assure him that his seed shall possess the land.

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become a professor of divinity in an English university.In 1890-92 he was a lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, and from 1890 to 1897 held a fellowship at Merton College.In 1892, however, he was invited to become tutor at the Primitive Methodist Theological Institute in Manchester, which was renamed Hartley College in 1906. He was largely responsible for broadening the curriculum which intending Primitive Methodist ministers were required to follow, and for raising the standards of the training.In 1895-1912 he served as lecturer in the Lancashire Independent College, from 1904 to 1912 also in the United Methodist College at Manchester. In 1904 he was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the (Victoria) University of Manchester. (This chair was in the Faculty of Theology established in that year; it was renamed "Rylands Professor, etc." in 1909.)Peake was also active as a layman in wider Methodist circles, and did a great deal to further the reunion of Methodism which took effect in 1932, three years after his death. In the wider ecumenical sphere Peake worked for the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, serving as president in 1928, and was a member of the World Conference on Faith and Order held in Lausanne in 1927. He published and lectured extensively, but is best remembered for his one-volume commentary on the Bible (1919), which, in its revised form, is still in use.The University of Aberdeen made him an honorary D. D. in 1907. He was a governor of the John Rylands Library.... Show more

First published in 1919, Peake's commentary of the bible was a one-volume commentary that gave special attention to Biblical archaeology and the then-recent discoveries of biblical manuscripts. Biblical quotations in this edition were from the Revised Version of the Bible.... Show more

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