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- Gen. 1:1-2:4a
- Creation of the World in Seven Days
- Gen. 2:4b-3:24
- Garden Story of Adam
- and Eve
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- Date of composition: Babylonian Exile
- (6th Century BCE)
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5
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- Commission: “God said, ‘Let there be _______.”
- Confirmation: “And then it was so.”
- Affirmation: “And God saw it was good.”
- Conclusion: “It was evening and then it was morning – the ______ day.
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- Tiamat (mother) Apsu
(father)
- Goddess of Salt Water God of
Fresh Water
- Ea Marduk Kingu
- Hears plot Storm God Fights w/ Mom
- Fights
against
- Mom
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- Creates solar system by separating light from darkness
- Creates sky and sea by separating waters above from below
- Creates earth by:
- a. separating land
- b. separating out three types of vegetation
- 4. Populates solar system with sun, moon, stars
- 5. Populates sky and sea with birds and fish
- 6. Populates earth with:
- a. land animals
- b. human beings
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- Date of Composition:
- 10th Century BCE (?)
- Literary Type: “science fiction”
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- Human Being
- God forms adam out of the earth (adamah)
- God blows (ruah = breath, wind, spirit) into earthling.
- Humans are composite beings: material and spiritual
- Yahweh
- God portrayed as anthropomorphic.
- God’s power more limited – e.g. helpmate example.
- God is more immanent in involvement with creation.
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- Syrian Combat Myth
- Baal and Anat
- (God of Storms) (God
of Earth/Soil)
- Vs.
- Mot (God of Death)
- Yamm (God of Sea)
Leviathan (Sea Dragon)
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- Snakes were fertility symbols in Syrian rituals.
- Snakes archetypal figures of death (venom mysteriously kills)
- Snakes seem immortal because it sheds its skin.
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- Humans have self-awareness/free will.
- Humans “stuck” between the animals and the gods, material and spiritual.
- Humans like God in knowledge but not like God because we are mortal.
- God cares for humans like a parent.
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- Genesis 1
- Transcendent God (creates thru words)
- Positive view of world (tov = it works)
- Positive view of humans (made in divine image and likeness)
- Genesis 2-3
- Anthropomorphic God (creates with hands)
- Negative view of world (place of punishment)
- Pessimistic view of humans (composite beings, mortal creatures, “stuck”)
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- Priestly Version
- Elohim
- One pair of every animal.
- Noah builds ark following God’s detailed plans.
- Rains for 150 days.
- Noah sends out raven.
- 250 days before dry land appears.
- Yahwist Version
- Yahweh
- Seven pairs of clean animals, one pair of unclean animals.
- Ark provided by God.
- Rains for 40 days/nights.
- Noah sends out dove only.
- 14 days before dry land appears.
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- Priestly Source
- Elohim
- Transcendent
- Order
- Numbers, genealogies, etc.
- Yahwist Source
- Yahweh
- Immanent
- Disorder
- Etiologies
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- Variations in Divine Names
- Doublets and Repetitions
- Inconsistencies
- Literary Style Distinctions
- Theological and Ideological Differences
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- Question of Complete Written Sources (Form Criticism and oral story
cycles)
- Circular Arguments in Correlating the Dates and Theology of Sources (Recent dating of Pentateuchal narratives to post-exilic
period)
- Fallacy of the Assumption of Coherence (Post-Modern suspicion of
Enlightenment, logical thinking)
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Notes
