suggestions to his friend Radulphus, and we will take advantage of them in our theological reading in chapter 7. None of these authors I have mentioned thought that their literary judgment was to the disadvantage of Genesis. Indeed, as Lewis put it, But if you compare [the Genesis story] with the creation legends of other peoples—with all those delightful absurdities in which giants to be cut up and floods to be dried up are made to exist before creation—the depth and originality of this Hebrew folk