Genesis: The Forms of the Old Testament Literature (FOTL)

(1936–2006) George W. Coats was professor emeritus of Old Testament at Lexington Theological Seminary, Kentucky.

Claus Westermann
"This exegesis of Genesis is a valuable aid and good as both summary and development of this kind of scholarship on Genesis in the last decades. . . It demonstrates the importance of this approach for exegesis: the commentary strives to show how the individual parts are made understandable by the whole."

Matitiahu Tsevat
— Hebrew Union College
"A most welcome book. It adds several dimensions to the interpretation of the biblical book to which it is devoted. . . Because of the comprehensiveness of its treatment of Genesis and the balanced judgment of Professor Coats, the book functions, at times, as a test of the validity of its own major method — form criticism in Old Testament study."