English summary: Walter Buhrer investigates the methodological presuppositions for a relative-dating of Old Testament texts. With Gen 1-3 a test case he works with one of the most important texts in classical pentateuchal scholarship. Recent European scholarship tends more and more to post-date the non-priestly Eden narrative through comparison with priestly, deuteronomic-deuteronomistic and late wisdom texts. Buhrer, however, argues for a...