Ackerman And Warshaw Analysis

Ackerman and Warshaw descriptively recount the story of how God created heaven and the earth in the excerpt, “Creation: Heaven and Earth”, from “The Bible as/in Literature”. This is a sequential description of the six days it took God to complete his work as creator and a seventh day of rest, which the reader learns through his actions and commands. As the first day commenced, God generated light, as a separation from darkness, making this what we know as day and night. The second day, the sky was formed with water below and above, and another evening and morning passed. A third day began, and God brought about land, and seas with a distinction between them. Upon, this marvel he provided vegetation to inhabit his new environment. When the