Already from the time of the initial publication of the Genesis Apocryphon, it was clear that the entire composition was not cut from one cloth. The editors of the editio princeps wrote a half century ago, "The work is evidently a literary unit in style and structure, though ... it may perhaps be divisible into books--a Book of Lamech, a Book of Enoch, a Book of Noah, a Book of Abraham." (1) Column 2, describing the reaction of Lamech to the (apparently) miraculous birth and/or appearance of his son Noah, was related to the biblical narrative of Genesis differently from the way that cols. 19-22 that describe the adventures of Abram from Gen 12:8-15:4 were. The Abram material adhered much more closely to the biblical story line, while the earlier section presented considerably freer composition.
