Let’s get into it. I believe that our sharing of exegetical insights and individual hermeneutics will be enlightening. We may finally not enjoy a ‘new creation’ but certainly our understanding of Genesis will be a fitting main course.

I’m not entirely willing to give up on your original five categories either. Seems to me that my initial response was that there may well be some mythical element in my reading of Genesis today even though that may not have been so to the original author(s), hearers. The very fact that story telling is the most probable original route of transmission of the tale makes one wonder whether the original hearers may not also have received it so…

Live to serve : Serve to live