title: Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis
author:  Robert Graves 
description: <DIV>This exhaustive exploration of the Hebrew myths and the book of Genesis resulted from a remarkable collaboration between one scholar raised as a strict Protestant and one raised as a strict Jew. It goes beyond Christian biblical and Judaic myth and incorporates midrashes, folk tales, apocryphal texts, and other obscure sources to extend and complete the stories. An intriguing view of the suppressed and censored pre-biblical accounts is the result, along with a rich sense of a culture consisting of oral and literary traditions, where the spiritual is deeply rooted in landscape and history.<br></div>
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  Hebrew Myths
  
  
  The Book of Genesis
  
  
  Robert Graves
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright
  
  
  Hebrew Myths  
  
  
  Copyright © 1964 by The Trustees of the Robert Graves Copyright Trust and
  Daphne Patai  
  
  
  Copyright © 1963, 1964 by International Authors NV and Dr Raphael Patai,
  renewed 1992 by Beryl Graves and Dr Raphael Patai  
  
  
  Cover art, special contents, and Electronic Edition © 2014 by RosettaBooks LLC
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
  form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage
  and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher,
  except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.
  
  
  Cover jacket design by Carly Schnur  
  
  
  ISBN e-Pub edition: 9780795337154
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  [INTRODUCTION](part0004.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [1 THE CREATION ACCORDING TO GENESIS](part0005.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [2 THE CREATION ACCORDING TO OTHER BIBLICAL TEXTS](part0006.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [3 MYTHICAL 