Abstract
Heinrichs is a longstanding member of ASA. Now in his eighty-first year, he has recorded the fruits of his scholarship and long life. Concerning Genesis he writes: "I feel that many views expressed read far more into Genesis than is justified. Genesis had to be understandable to the people who first received it, and it was written within the culture of the time." Furthermore, says Heinrichs, my view on Genesis takes cultural factors into consideration and "is closer to the truth than many of the complicated articles usually published in ASA."