Gary North
This is my 31-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible.
The final typeset PDF editions were posted on January 29, 2021. The initial PDF editions were posted in August 2012. I began writing this series in early 1973. These were published in printed form:
The Dominion Covenant: Genesis (1982)
Moses and Pharaoh: Dominion Religion vs. Power Religion (1985)
The Sinai Strategy: Economic and the Ten Commandments (1986)
Tools of Dominion: The Case Laws of Exodus (1990)
Leviticus: An Economic Commentary (1994)
Sanctions and Dominion: An Economic Commentary (Numbers) (1997)
In September 1977, I escalated my pace to 10 hours per week, 50 weeks per year. My cut-off date: February 11, 2012: my 70th birthday. As it turned out, my son got married on that day. He was born in September 1977.
I completed the project — just barely — on July 28, 2012. I had been forced to cease writing for six months when I did not have access to my library in 1998. I made up for this six month break: February 2012 to July 28, 2012. So, almost to the week, I had guessed had correctly in September 1977 as to how long this project should take.
Or is it just another example of Parkinson’s law? “Work expands in order to fill the time allotted for its completion.”
No one has ever attempted a Bible commentary like this: what the Bible has to say about the details of an academic discipline.
This was my homework for my life’s calling, a book on Christian economic theory. I had to do the exegetical work first. I have completed the second edition of a book on The Covenantal Structure of Christian Economics (2018).
The culmination of my life’s work is here.
Christian Economics: Student’s Edition (2020): 256 pages.
Christian Economics: Teacher’s Edition (2020): 610 pages.
Christian Economics: Activist’s Edition (2020): 271 pages.
Christian Economics: Scholar’s Edition, Part 1 , Part 2 (2020): 1,115 pages (two volumes).
I started this investigation in the spring of 1960. I adopted it as my life’s calling in my senior year in college: 1962-63.
My basic outline is here, which I wrote in two weeks in 1987: Inherit the Earth.
Genesis
Sovereignty and Dominion
Vol. 1
Vol. 2Exodus
Authority and Dominion
Vol. 1
Vol. 2
Vol. 3
Vol. 4
Vol. 5
Vol. 6Leviticus
Boundaries and Dominion
Vol. 1
Vol. 2
Vol. 3
Vol. 4Numbers
Sanctions and DominionDeuteronomy
Inheritance and Dominion
Vol. 1
Vol. 2
Vol. 3
Vol. 4Historical Books
Disobedience and DefeatJob
Predictability and DominionPsalms
Confidence and DominionProverbs
Wisdom and DominionEcclesiastes
Autonomy and StagnationProphets
Restoration and DominionMatthew
Priorities and DominionRomans
Cooperation and DominionI Corinthians
Judgment and DominionI Timothy
Hierarchy and DominionEpistles
Ethics and Dominion
Total pages: 8,511 for the commentaries.
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