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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”

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

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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The Variable Spellings of the Hebrew Bible, p. 92