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Current scholarly consensus is that the Geneses are actually two different accounts, one likely originating in ancient Israel and the other in ancient Judah. It’s why the two stories are so startlingly different when you read them side by side.
Exactly. King Josiah is believed to have had religious stories and traditions from both regions of Judah (North and South).