Abstract
This study addresses the problem that is presented by the common literary critical approach to the two creation narratives in Genesis 1 and 2. According to the Documentary Hypothesis, Genesis 1 was written by the Priestly writer or his school in the 6th or 5th century B.C., while Genesis 2 was written by the Yahwist writer, currently dated in the 10th century B.C. Since these two sources were supposedly written by different persons in different places in very different times, this approach to these narratives has emphasized their differences - even "contradictions" - and the contrast in their writing styles. Needless to say, neither source is seen to have any connection with an earlier Mosaic authorship of these passages. The corollary of this view, sometimes written but other times left unsaid, is that the reader need have little confidence in the idea that either record might actually reflect the historical events of creation week.