The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History

majestic literary style of a legal writer. Are the differences between these two accounts of creation greater than those between the parallel narratives in the Gospels?

lars hold, though many differ in judgment, that the account in the first chapter of Genesis was written by a priestly write

hings: (1) One supreme God is the Creator; (2) man is closely akin to

for instruction which is in righteousness." Is their religious value, even as in the parables of the New Testament, entirely independent of their historical or scientific accuracy? Is there any contradiction betwee