Introduction
1. Richard S. Hess - One Hundred Fifty Years of Comparative Studies on Genesis 1-11: An Overview
2. David Toshio Tsumura - Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction
3. Richard S. Hess - The Genealogies of Genesis 1-11 and Comparative Literature

Part 1: Ancient Near Eastern and Comparative Approaches
4. G. Castellino - The Origins of Civilization according to Biblical and Cuneiform Texts
5. W. G. Lambert - A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis
6. A. R. Millard - A New Babylonian "Genesis" Story
7. Thorkild Jacobsen - The Eridu Genesis
8. Patrick D. Miller Jr. - Eridu, Dunnu, and Babel: A Study in Comparative Mythology
9. Isaac M. Kikawada - The Double Creation of Mankind in Enki and Ninmah, Atrahasis I 1-351, and Genesis 1-2
10. A. Speiser - The Rivers of Paradise
11. Abraham Malamat - King Lists of the Old Babylonian Period and Biblical Genealogies
12. Robert R. Wilson - The Old Testament Genealogies in Recent Research
13. Rykle Borger - The Incantation Series Bit Meseri and Enoch's Ascension to Heaven
14. J. Simons - The "Table of Nations" (Genesis 10): Its General Structure and Meaning
15. D. J. Wiseman - Genesis 10: Some Archaeological Consideration
16. I. J. Gelb - The Name of Babylon
17. E. A. Spier - In Search of Nimrod
18. Samuel Noah Kramer - The "Babel of Tongues": A Sumerian Version

Part 2: Literary and Linguistic Approaches
19. D. J. A. Clines - Theme in Genesis 1-11
20. David Toshio Tsumura - The Earth in Genesis 1
21. Phyllis A. Bird - "Male and Female He Created Them": Genesis 1:27b in the Context of the Priestly Account of Creation
22. Jerome T. Walsh - Genesis 2:4b-3:24: A Synchronic Approach
23. Alan Jon Hauser - Genesis 2-3: The Theme of Intimacy and Alienation
24. Gordon J. Wenham - Sanctuary Symbolism in the Garden of Eden Story
25. S. Gevirtz - Lamech's Song to His Wives (Genesis 4:23-24)
26. Bernhard W. Anderson - From Analysis to Synthesis: The Interpretation of Genesis 1-11
27. Gordon J. Wenham - The Coherence of the Flood Narrative
28. J. M. Sasson - The "Tower of Babel" as a Clue to the Redactional Structuring of the Primeval History (Genesis 1:1-11:9)