David Atkinson's devotional interests come
to the fore in the first sentence of, The Message of Genesis 1 - 11: The Dawn of Creation (The Bible
Speaks Today Series, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1990, 190 pp., $ 12.99): «The poem of beauty and grandeur which forms the opening chapter of our
Bibles is a hymn of praise ot the majesty of God the Creator.»