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This commentary aims to enrich the above-surveyed centuries-long conversation about Genesis with a mix of diachronic and synchronic analysis, each pursued in turn and in relation to each other. As stated in the preface to the series, “diachronic analysis” is understood here to pertain to the “depth dimension” of a given text—that is its various sorts of identifiable precursors: earlier source or compositional-redactional strata, oral traditions, and/or separate biblical or non-biblical texts with which the text specifically interacts. The following section of this introduction prepares for the diachronic portion of the commentary by surveying the main precursors of Gen 1–11 to be discussed across the course of the commentary, starting with pre-biblical Near Eastern literary traditions.