historical details of Genesis 1–11. Not every author paid attention to the historicity of Genesis, but enough of them did so that we may assume that this was the default understanding of Genesis. Indeed, the crises that would come about after the Scientific Revolution further confirm that people understood Genesis 1–11 as a history of the origin of the world. No one would fuss about the age of the earth, the creation of species, or the person of Adam if they didn’t think that Genesis was telling