The view presented here has affinities with the so-called “framework hypothesis,” but also varies from it in major ways. It draws heavily on ANE contextual sources as well, but it does so in ways that vary substantially from the work of some other scholars who take such material seriously in the reading of Gen 1–2. It draws heavily from comparable passages within the Bible too, especially the close parallels in Ps 104. But at its base, this view depends on a close reading of