Probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew… - James Barr

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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:

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Rev. Professor James Barr (20 March 1924 – 14 October 2006) was a Scottish Old Testament scholar.

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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.

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

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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