David Carr has written extensively on Genesis, including numerus articles and four books focused on the sources and meaning of Reading the Fractures of Genesis (1996), The Formation of Genesis (2020) and Genesis 1-11: A Commentary (2021) and Unmaking Eden: Genesis and the Domestication of the World. Forthcoming in Fall from Cambridge University Press.

He is an internationally-recognized authority on the formation of Genesis and other biblical books and a leader in the emergent field of human-animal studies and the Bible. He is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, book review editor for Vetus Testamentum, member of editorial boards for Vetus Testamentum, Biblical Interpretation and the International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament, and recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and numerous other grants and awards.