had limited access to true historical resources.39 And, obviously, a majority believe that the antediluvian accounts of Genesis 1–11 are mere myth and legend, just like similar stories throughout the ancient Near East. In evangelical Old Testament studies today there appears to be a clear drift away from the position that holds to an original, singular, and unique worldview on the part of the Hebrews.40 For example, in regard to the book of Genesis, Peter Enns argues that we ought to “acknowledge
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