ABSTRACT
There are, as Mary Nyquist has brilliantly reminded us, not one but two creation stories in the Book of Genesis.1 The first, now thought to be the product of the Priestly or “ P” author and first in the received order of the sacred text, though it may actually have been produced second, is found in verses 26-8 of Genesis 1:
26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
