Some of the ground trod by comments on Genesis here and on other blogs is old ground, with uninformed comments 'discovering' what has been actually put to bed. While it is quite a task to remain abreast of publication in this field, I would have hoped that there would be more than a passing familiarity with major contributions of the recent past. It appears to be, so often, not the case.
For instance, an article by Noel Weeks in Themelios looks at the hermeneutical approach we might make to the text. It was written about 30 years ago, but still raises questions that have not been adequately considered by some. Weeks joins Kitchen on ANE religions, Green on the unity of Genesis and studies by EJ Young in being skirted. It appears that if you can't deal with a position that opposes the compromise of Genesis and materialism, you just ignore it, and pretend it will go away!
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Dr Weeks is well qualified, as a historian of the Ancient Near East who has degrees in zoology and theology as well, according to his bio. His articles, Problems in methods of interpretation—Genesis 1–11, Part 1 and Part 2 are almost 30 years old, but still demolish the Moorite eisegetical compromise.
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