We shall work not on the macrocosmic scale of the literary forms, but on the microcosmic scale of the lexical forms. - James Barr

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

#the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story

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: