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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...history of the Hebrew race; they are far more primitive and picturesque in style than the more formal and annalistic narrative with which they are combined The writers of these two narratives are generally distinguished by the names Jehovist and Elohist, from the fact that in one of them the Divine name employed is Jahweh or Jehovah, translated as the Lord in the Authorized Version; while in the other it is Elohim, which is translated as God. It is needless for our purpose to discuss here the relations which these three works bear to one another, or to enumerate any additional documents of which use was made in the Hexateuch. It will suffice to state that in the early chapters of Genesis, two only, of the three writings referred to, have been used--the Priestly writing 1 and the Jehovistic 1 The Priestly writing also makes use of the word Elohim for God. 112 THE BIBLICAL VERSIONS OF CREATION. narrative. 1 Thus the account of the creation in Genesis i. 1--ii. 4 (first half of the verse) is from the former writing, and contains a complete account of the history of creation in a series of successive acts. The story of the garden of Eden, which follows in chapters ii. 4 (second half of the verse)--iii. 24, is taken from the Jehovistic narrative, and it gives another account of creation which is not marked by the literary precision and balanced structure of the first chapter. That account had given a complete description of the making of the world; the second uarrative begins at the beginning again, going back to a time when there were no plants, nor beasts, nor men, and then narrates their creation. If we compare these accounts with the two...

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