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Genesis, Volume 2: A New Beginning (Genesis 12–36): An Expositional Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this commentary on Genesis 12–36, Boice traces the “new beginning” of God’s plan of redemption, which arose out of God’s relationship with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. By delving into the patriarchs’ lives, Boice demonstrates how much they are like us and how easily we relate to them, both in triumphs and failures. The second of three volumes on the Book of Genesis, A New Beginning shows how...

Here and there in the Bible we come upon chapters that report such disgraceful deeds that it is difficult to know how to comment or preach on them. The thirty-fourth chapter of Genesis is such a chapter, for it tells of the rape of Jacob’s daughter Dinah by Shechem—son of Hamor, the king of Shechem—and of a bloody revenge on the city of Shechem by Jacob’s sons. What are we to do with such a chapter? I have noticed in my study of the commentaries on Genesis that some writers simply pass over the incident.
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