inscriptions, large numbers were often employed to glorify a given king. This in turn helped to understand the reason such large numbers were employed in Scripture: they glorify the King of Kings. Therefore, the largest numbers of Scripture, found in biblical literature of the same or similar genre to the royal inscriptions of the ANE, may be interpreted as numerical hyperbole.69 By analogy, might the same thing be happening with the term “day” and the phrase “and there was evening and there was