You know, the whole existence of day and night comes from sitting on a planet that rotates. God’s not confined to a planet so Genesis is clearly written to reflect the POV of man - and its limited by what he could understand at the time.
Man couldn’t understand the planets traveling in elliptical orbits for billions years -this is before we knew what a ellipse was or how much a billion was or that the planet rotated at all.
Jesus spoke in parables to help people understand so I don’t think its odd that the old testament uses parables too.
Dwelling on the details of a grand parable risks missing the point.
Dwelling on the details of a grand parable risks missing the point.
But there isn't anything in the text to suggest that Gen. 1 is a parable. It's clearly narrative ... and I would claim its narrative history. I agree if you dwell on the details of a parable you could miss the point; but assigning a literary genre arbitrarily will guarantee you miss it.