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Foreword by Dr. Frank James • 9
Part One
Consider the Years of All Generations • 15
Chapter 1 The First Command: Remember the Days of Old • 18
1. The “Days of Old” in Light of God’s History of Salvation • 18
2. Remember • 19
Chapter 2 The Second Command: Consider the Years of All Generations • 22
1. Years of All Generations • 22
2. Consider • 23
Chapter 3 The Third Command: Ask Your Father, and He Will Inform You, Your Elders, and They Will Tell You • 24
1. Your Father and Elders • 24
2. Ask • 25
3. He Will Inform You and They Will Tell You • 26
4. The Unchanging Word of God • 26
God’s Administration of Redemption and the Genesis Genealogies • 29
Chapter 4 God’s Administration of Redemption • 32
1. The History of Redemption as a Part of God’s Administration • 32
2. The Focus and Scope of Redemptive History • 33
3. Christ, the Apex of Redemptive History • 35
Chapter 5 God’s Work in the History of Redemption and the Genealogies • 38
1. The Redemptive-historical Significance of the Genealogies • 38
2. The Structure and Flow of the Genealogies • 39
Chapter 6 The Genealogies in Genesis • 42
1. The Structure of Genesis • 42
2. Ten Genealogies in Genesis • 43
3. Sepher Toledoth (Book of the Generations) • 45
4. The Method of Studying the Genesis Genealogies • 46
Chapter 7 Years of the Generations in Genesis • 50
1. Perspective on the Inerrancy of the Bible • 50
2. Years of the Generations in Genesis 5 and Genesis 11 • 51
3. A Point of Reference for Calculating the Years • 53
The Genealogy According to the Line of Cain • 57
Chapter 8 The Descendants of Cain • 59
1. Cain: gotten one, received • 59
2. Enoch: dedication, initiated, teacher • 66
3. Irad: runner, fleet, boastful • 68
4. Mehujael: blotted out by God • 70
5. Methushael: man of Sheol or man of God • 71
6. Lamech: a strong youth, the conqueror • 72
Chapter 9 The Descendants of Sin in the Line of Cain • 78
1. The Descendants of Nimrod and the Construction of the Tower of Babel • 78
2. Ishmael and Esau • 82
The Genealogy According to the Line of Seth • 87
Excursus 2:
The Twenty Generations of the Patriarchs • 89
Chapter 10 The Genealogy from Adam to Noah • 93
1. First Generation: Adam • 95
2. Second Generation: Seth • 99
3. Third Generation: Enosh • 102
4. Fourth Generation: Kenan • 105
5. Fifth Generation: Mahalalel • 107
6. Sixth Generation: Jared • 110
7. Seventh Generation: Enoch • 113
8. Eighth Generation: Methuselah • 120
9. Ninth Generation: Lamech • 123
10. Tenth Generation: Noah • 127
Excursus 3:
The Duration of the Ark Construction • 135
Excursus 4:
The Meaning of the 120 Years in Genesis 6:3 • 138
Chapter 11 The Genealogy from Shem to Abraham • 142
11. Eleventh Generation: Shem • 143
12. Twelfth Generation: Arpachshad • 147
13. Thirteenth Generation: Shelah • 152
Excursus 5:
Perspective on Cainan • 154
14. Fourteenth Generation: Eber • 156
15. Fifteenth Generation: Peleg • 160
16. Sixteenth Generation: Reu • 163
17. Seventeenth Generation: Serug • 166
18. Eighteenth Generation: Nahor • 169
19. Nineteenth Generation: Terah • 173
20. Twentieth Generation: Abraham • 176
A New Work of Salvation • 181
Chapter 12 The Differences between the Line of Cain and the Line of Seth • 183
1. The Genealogies of Cain and Seth Have Different Beginnings • 183
2. The Genealogies of Cain and Seth Demonstrate Different Lifestyles • 185
3. The Genealogies of Cain and Seth Have Different Records of Birth and Death • 186
4. The Genealogies of Cain and Seth Have Different Records of Longevity • 188
Chapter 13 The Work of Separation • 193
1. The Work of Separation among the Patriarchs after Noah • 193
2. The Work of Separation in Abraham’s Life • 202
Chapter 14 Abraham from the Redemptive Historical Perspective • 208
1. The Work of Sin Proliferated until the Birth of Abraham • 209
2. God Preserved Faith throughout the History of Sin and Wickedness • 210
3. The Beginning of a New Work of Salvation through Abraham • 210
Conclusion • 215
Commentaries • 221
1. Dr. Kyung-Bae Min, Th.D. • 222
Distinguished Professor of Baekseok University Honorary Professor of Yonsei University
2. Dr. Nam-Sik Kim, Th.D. • 227
Chief Editor of Kidok (Christian) Times, Visiting Professor of Chongshin University, Director of the Counseling Mission Research Center of Korea, President of the Presbyterian Church Korea History Association
3. Dr. Young-Bae Cha, Th.D. • 230
Former President of the Chongshin University
4. Dr. Youngyup Cho, Ph.D. • 232
Professor of the Kyeyak Graduate School of Theology
5. Rev. Tae-Deuk Lim • 233
Senior Pastor of Dae Myung Church in Daegu
Former Moderator of the Hap-dong General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea
6. Dr. Andrew J. Tesia, Ph.D. • 235
President of the Research Institute of Reformed Theology
7. Dr. Horiuchi Akira • 241
Representative Pastor of Grace Missions, Evangelical Free Church of Japan, Chairman of the Food for the Hungry International (F. H. I.), Chief Director of King’s Garden in Mie
Bibliography • 242
Notes • 247
Index • 249
Excursus 1: The Chronology of the Patriarchs • Endpapers*
