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Title: Reading Genesis with Luther
Review: The second installment of Luther's lectures on Genesis continues the story from Noah to Abraham. These lectures are lucid and insightful if a little repetitive. Luther reads Genesis as a true history and often is using his imagination to fill in gaps for his students. Noah and Abraham are presented as preachers who were despised by their neighbors but beloved by God for their adherence to the true faith. Luther's exegetical method is to read the Biblical stories as guides and view the characters as examples. Luther imaginitively reads his own personal experience very deeply in the Biblical texts. But despite this, and Luther's propensity to make claims which can be disturbing, Luther remains an indispensible teacher of how to distinguish what is useful from what is frivolous in the Bible. His reading of Scripture should inspire the modern Christian to treat the Bible as the living, breathing, word of God.
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