**Adventist Scholarly Papers on Understanding the Creation Story**
  * [[https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/1892/|In the Beginning: How to Interpret Genesis 1 (Richard M. Davidson)]]
  * [[https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/2097/|A Biblical Theology of Creation (Richard M. Davidson)]]
  * [[https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/jats/vol13/iss2/8/|The Creation Account in Genesis 1: Our World Only or the Universe? (Ferdinand O. Regalado)]]
  * [[https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pd/vol10/iss4/4/|Can We Have It Both Ways? (L. James Gibson)]]
  * [[https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/jats/vol14/iss1/6/|Days of Genesis 1: Literal or Nonliteral? (Walter M. Booth)]]
  * [[https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/jats/vol14/iss1/2/|The Biblical Account of Origins (Richard M. Davidson, Andrews University)]]
  * [[https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/auss/vol53/iss1/5/|Earth's First Sanctuary: Genesis 1–3 and Parallel Creation Accounts (Richard M. Davidson)]]


**Genesis 1:1-5**
  * [[https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/old-testament-pubs/3/|Interpretation of Bereʼšît in the Context of Genesis 1:1-3 (Jiri Moskala, Andrews University)]]
  * [[https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/auss/vol59/iss1/1/|An Apologia for an Earlier Commencement for Day 1 of Creation: A Structural Analysis Based on a Work Correspondence (Sven Andrew Mark Ostring)]]
  * [[https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/jats/vol15/iss2/5/|Issues in "Intermediate" Models of Origins (Jim Gibson)]]


**Genesis 1:6-8**

the "expanse"
 
 * [[https://www.grisda.org/assets/public/resources/CollectedPapers/Genesis_Creation_Account_OT/GCA_02_031_056.pdf|The Myth of the Solid Heavenly Dome: Another Look at the RĀQÎAʿ (Randall W. Younker, Richard M. Davidson)]]