Publisher's Synopsis
This book shows and explains to us the creation story in details. Every aspect of the creation story as recorded in the bible was considered. Thinking about the Hebrew Bible throughout my academic career and since my retirement, I have come to think of it centrally with that title, and not how I was first trained to know it: as the Old Testament. I am very conscious of its "Hebrewness" and its antiquity, its setting in a culture so different from ours that we would be quite helpless if transported into it. As the Old Testament, it is the first volume of a two-volume Christian book, and a great many people suppose they are very comfortable with reading Christian books. The New Testament, however, is also the product of an ancient culture, or a combination of them, Jewish, Greek, and Roman, of the first centuries of the Common Era. As products of their times, both volumes think in unfamiliar ways.
