Daily study Bible Old Testament (Barclay)
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Use to be in Logos years back i think it was 2004 or maybe even 2006 when it was pulled... It is not by Baclay but a companion to his DSB... that said it is a very good set.
General Preface
This series of commentaries on the Old Testament, of which my own volume on Genesis 1–11 is one of the first, has been planned as a companion series to the much-acclaimed New Testament series of the late Professor William Barclay. As with that series, each volume is arranged in successive headed portions suitable for daily study. The Biblical text followed is that of the Revised Standard Version or Common Bible. Eleven contributors share the work, each being responsible for from one to three volumes. The series is issued in the hope that it will do for the Old Testament what Professor Barclay’s series succeeded so splendidly in doing for the New Testament—make it come alive for the Christian believer in the twentieth century.
Its two-fold aim is the same as his. Firstly, it is intended to introduce the reader to some of the more important results and fascinating insights of modern Old Testament scholarship. Most of the contributors are already established experts in the field with many publications to their credit. Some are younger scholars who have yet to make their names but who in my judgment as General Editor are now ready to be tested. I can assure those who use these commentaries that they are in the hands of competent teachers who know what is of real consequence in their subject and are able to present it in a form that will appeal to the general public.
The primary purpose of the series, however, is not an academic one. Professor Barclay summed it up for his New Testament series in the words of Richard of Chichester’s prayer—to enable men and women “to know Jesus Christ more clearly, to love Him more dearly, and to follow Him more nearly.” In the case of the Old Testament we have to be a little more circumspect than that. The Old Testament was completed long before the time of Our Lord, and it was (as it still is) the sole Bible of the Jews, God’s first people, before it became part of the Christian Bible. We must take this fact seriously.
Yet in its strangely compelling way, sometimes dimly and sometimes directly, sometimes charmingly and sometimes embarrassingly, it holds up before us the things of Christ. It should not be forgotten that Jesus Himself was raised on this Book, that He based His whole ministry on what it says, and that He approached His death with its words on His lips. Christian men and women have in this ancient collection of Jewish writings a uniquely illuminating avenue not only into the will and purposes of God the Father, but into the mind and heart of Him who is named God’s Son, who was Himself born a Jew but went on through the Cross and Resurrection to become the Saviour of the world. Read reverently and imaginatively the Old Testament can become a living and relevant force in their everyday lives.
It is the prayer of myself and my colleagues that this series may be used by its readers and blessed by God to that end.
JOHN C.L. GIBSON
General Editor
New College
EdinburghJohn C. L. Gibson, Genesis, vol. 1, The Daily Study Bible Series (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1981), 0.
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