Henry Morris, a respected theologian, expresses this belief when he wrote "The books of the Old Testament, narrating God's dealing with the people of Israel, would be provincial and bigoted, were they not set in the context of God's developing purposes for all mankind, as laid down in the early chapters of Genesis" (17). ... (Waltke, 22) Today, the Documentary Hypothesis, or the JEDP hypothesis, is the most commonly held view for how Genesis, and much of the Pentateuch, was written. ... By examining the text, theologians describe Genesis as being composed of two main parts "Chapte...

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