1. Edward P. Arbez and John P. Weisengoff, "Exegetical Notes on Genesis 1:1-2," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 10.2 (1949): 144.
2. Gordon J. Wenham e.g, observes how the number seven "dominates this opening chapter in a strange way, not only in the numbers of words in a particular section but in the number of times a specific word or phrase recurs," (Genesis 1-15 (WBC 1; Waco, TX: Word, 1987), 6).
3. H. Shanks, "How the Bible Begins," Judaism 21 (1972): 58; also cited in Victor P. Hamilton, The Book of Genesis Chapters 1-17 (NICOT; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990), 108.
4. Op cit., 141.
5. Op cit., 13.
6. Ibid. Though he notes that "[w]hether this, the traditional understanding of these verses, does justice to the exact wording of Genesis must now be investigated", no follow up summary or conclusion is provided in his commentary.
7. Op cit., 11.
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