(c) Gunkel suggested that the plural might reflect the polytheistic account taken over by P, though he recognized that this could not be P’s view. As shown above, Gen 1 is distinctly antimythological in its thrust, explicitly rejecting ancient Near Eastern views of creation. Thus modern commentators are quite agreed that Gen 1:26 could never have been taken by the author of this chapter in a polytheistic sense. (d) Some scholars, e.g., Keil, Dillmann, and Driver, have suggested that this is an example