See Raffaele Pettazzoni, “Myths of Beginnings and Creation-Myths,” Essays on the History of Religions, Numen Suppl. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 1954), pp. 24–36, esp. 32–34; cited with approval by Claus Westermann in Genesis 1–11 (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1984), p. 167.