#creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience - James Barr

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

#Noah’s flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark.

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(s) of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that: