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An Introduction to the Old Testament has served Old Testament students for well over fifty years. This classic, scholarly, conservative text concentrates on the literary characteristics of the Old Testament books, arguing for their inner harmony and underlying unity. Young follows a basic pattern in his discourse of each biblical book, focusing mostly on its authorship and purpose and then...

contents of the chapter. It would be difficult to write in these subjects without employing this particular vocabulary. Genesis 1 is monumental in character, and exhibits a stately cadence of grandeur as it reveals the sovereign Creator uttering His will, and that will coming to immediate fulfilment. So the narrative proceeds until it reaches its mighty climax. The Lord beholds the finished world and pronounces it very good. We are not to regard the chapter as the reworking by the Priestly School
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