Westermann concludes that it “has acquired this peculiar narrative form which is really no narrative at all.”55 Fortunately, the recent work by George Coats provides a convenient nomenclature for classifying the sub-genres of narrative.56 Possible major categories would be Tale, Legend, History, Report, Fable, Etiology, and Myth. Some of these may be excluded immediately, because Genesis 1:1–2:3 does not fit the basic literary criteria needed for such identification. In other words, Genesis does