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“creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience”

“the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story”

James Barr

“This book is therefore consecrated to the deeper and fuller study of that linguistic world in which the Hebrew Bible is set.”

James Barr

Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament, p. 304

“Noah’s flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark.”

James Barr

Letter to David C.C. Watson, 23 April 1984. Quoted from https://answersingenesis.org/ https://answersingenesis.org/genesis/oxford-hebrew-scholar-professor-james-barr-meaning-of-genesis/<br><br><br> link https://web.archive.org/web/20170612180930/http://members.iinet.com.au:80/~sejones/barrlett.html Source: The authenticity of this letter is not verified yet.

“We shall work not on the macrocosmic scale of the literary forms, but on the microcosmic scale of the lexical forms.”

James Barr

Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament, p. 10

“The problem here is not so much a historical one, more a terminological and philosophical one.”

James Barr

The Variable Spellings of the Hebrew Bible, p. 92