The Legends of Genesis

The present volume is an authorized translation of the Introduction to Prof. Gunkel''s large Commentary on Genesis published during the present year by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht of Gottingen under the title of Handcommcntar znm Alten Testament. Erste Abtheilung erster Band; die Genesis ilbersetzt und erkldrt von H. Gnnkel. The general critical and historical considerations offered to the public in a continuous and compendious form in this Introduction are elaborated and substantiated in the larger work with all the detail that belongs to exhaustive technical exposition; and the reader desirous of further confirmation of the views here presented is referred to the German original. The publishers are confident that the concise formulation of the very latest researches on Old Testament history here offered to the Englishreading public will find a cordial and extensive welcome.