"The problem here is not so much a historical one, more a terminological and philosophical one."

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“We shall work not on the macrocosmic scale of the literary forms, but on the microcosmic scale of the lexical forms.”

“Probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that:”

“This book is therefore consecrated to the deeper and fuller study of that linguistic world in which the Hebrew Bible is set.”

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