Chapters 1–11 of Genesis are like a poetic prologue to the early history ... and explains their religious significance and their place in the Bible as a whole. Introductory sections on the sources and ...

The Cambridge Companion to Genesis explores the first book of the Bible, the book that serves as the foundation ... as well as biblical and theological studies, the volume summarizes key developments ...

so the Genesis account was their way of trying to explain what they believed. Literalist Christians may believe that God created the world exactly as it states in the Bible, ie God taking six days ...

The Catholic Church teaches that the Bible accounts and stories have to ... had limited knowledge of science and the world, so the Genesis account was their way of trying to explain what they ...