Come and See: Genesis presents the 50 chapters of Genesis in a 22-chapter format. The intriguing adult commentary offers a view of creation with respect to natural science, biological science, geology, and anthropology. Pope Benedict XVI’s writings augment the commentaries, demonstrating this ancient text has, and always will have, contemporary relevance.
The Logos edition brings you more. With references to the Bible and Catechism appearing on mouseover, you can easily read source material to engage further with the subject matter. All cross-references are tagged to other resources in your library, you can easily connect with citations to the saints, popes, and doctors of the church. Enrich your Bible study and broaden your knowledge of Scripture as you explore these commentaries like never before through Logos.
“The whole reason for the Bible is to make known to people the invisible God who gives existence to the visible world. Reading the Bible lets us fulfill our principal earthly task, which is getting to know God.” (Page 9)
“God has just started to create time. He is still shaping and molding it. Time does not yet exist as we know it. The markers of time have not yet been set in the sky, and the creatures that experience it do not yet exist. The only point of view that exists so far is the divine one, which is eternal and stands outside of time. Day One was a day for God, not yet a day for humans.” (Page 10)
“Genesis 1 narrates creation entirely from God’s perspective, but Genesis 2 re-narrates from an increasingly human viewpoint.” (Page 19)
“he sought to identify the faith behind the circumcision as more important than circumcision itself.” (Page 87)
“The Bible also introduces the priesthood of Melchizedek before the priesthood of Levi” (Page 79)
Laurie W. Manhardt holds a BA in psychology from the University of Detroit and a PhD in education from the University of Michigan. She led an interfaith Bible study for 10 years, which convinced her of the need for quality Catholic Bible study resources. The Come and See: Catholic Bible Study Series is the result.
Joseph Ponessa was ordained in 1974 for his home diocese of Great Falls-Billings, Montana, where he serves as pastor. Mount Angel Seminary in St Benedict, Oregon, awarded him an MA in theology, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Biblicum) in Rome has conferred the doctorate in Sacred Scripture. Ponessa speaks American English, Italian, Spanish, and French, and he reads Middle English, Latin, Hebrew, Greek, German, Arabic, and Biblical Aramaic.