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Hardcover. Condizione: VERY GOOD. First Edition. [15], 2-472 pp. Large 8vo, burgundy cloth, gilt spine lettering. Owner's name to FFEP, clean and sharp otherwise. First owners' names to FFEP in pen and subsequent owner's stamp to tail edge. Trivial rubbing to extremities, very clean and sharp otherwise. Exceedingly scarce in trade. The Rev. G. Henton Davies was a British Baptist scholar tasked with composing a commentary on the book of Genesis for the Southern Baptist Convention Sunday School Board's new 12-volume commentary series. Davies's interpretive approach incorporated numerous elements which would raise the ire of a growing SBC contingent advocating a literal interpretation of all portions of Scripture. Most horrifying was his *sachkritik* analysis of the sacrifice of Isaac, in which he insisted the divine command to kill the promised Issac was a projection of Abraham's troubled psyche. Through great controversy, this first volume would be cancelled, recalled, pulped, and rewritten by a new author. The fracas over Davies's commentary marks the first great flexing of the ascendent Fundamentalist faction's power that would culminate in the "SBC Takeover" of the 80's. "Indeed what Christian or humane conscience could regard such a command as coming from God?".