Wagner's review of In the Beginning by Bernard Batto (Eisenbauns, 2013) continues the recent trend in the Review of Biblical Literature to offer uncritical summaries, rather than engage the authors' arguments. One glaring absence from this review is Batto's assumption that there is direct borrowing between the Mesopotamian sources and the biblical text. This stands in stark contrast to R. J. Clifford's classic, Creation Accounts in the Ancient Near East and the Bible (CBA, 1994).
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