Genesis to Deuteronomy: Notes on the Pentateuch

For more than one hundred years pastors teachers and students of the Bible have benefited from Mackintoshs deeply devotional commentary on the first five books of the Bible. His reflections are borne out of prolonged reflection and pastoral sensitivitynot abstruse theological concepts or an abstract engagement of the text. Mackintosh coaxingly invites readers to place themselves within the stories of the Pentateuch and confront the issues faced by the charactersto walk the garden with Adam and Eve to connive with Jacob to travel with Joseph and to wander with the Israelites from the bondage of Egypt to the freedom of the Promised Land. The Pentateuch expresses the most basic human sentiments and exposes the tension between promises and fulfillment good and evil belief and deception. Mackintoshs Notes on the Pentateuch shows how these books lay the groundwork for Gods redemptive history. Charles Henry Mackintosh (18201896) was notable for his work in philanthropic work during the Irish Potatoe Famine which affected much of Ireland Scotland and England at the time. He converted to Christianity through correspondence with his sister and through reading John Darbys Operations of the Spirit.