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.