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In the introduction to this volume, George Coats discusses narrative in general and the principal Old Testament narratives in particular. He then sets the book of Genesis in its larger Old Testament context, analyzing its major sections and subsections, and uses the succeeding chapters to treat each of the major sections individually.

Shem and, eventually, of Terah and Abraham. As an example of primeval saga, see the Yahwist’s version in Genesis 1–11. (2) Family saga shares the structural characteristics of primeval saga: it is a long, traditional, prose narrative with episodic units. In content the family saga is distinctive. Its perspective is still this world. Indeed, its narration depicts events of this period in world history. It focuses its concerns, however, not on the affairs of all the peoples of the world, as would primeval
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