One man is warned to build a ship, and he and his family and representatives of every anima species survive God sends a great flood to destroy humanity What do the similarities suggest about the age of the Flood tradition? Striking parallels between Gilgamesh story of the flood and Gen 6-9: in both, Two conclusions: 8:20-22(J) and 9:1-18(P) Compare and contrast the Genesis Flood story and the Babylonian version in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Review the evidence for the existence of the Priestly and Jahwist sources in the biblical Flood story in Genesis 6:5-9:17 Two divine names: Jahweh (lord) an Elohim (God)ĭifferent descriptions of the problem: 6:5(J and 6:11-12(P)ĭifferent reactions of the deity: 6:6-7(J) and 6:13(P)ĭifferent instructions re. These relationships become distorted in that there is not tension among what used to be harmonious: there is hardship in farming, subordination of women in marriage, pain of women in bearing children, and animosity between snakes and humans. The man (adam) is formed form the dirt of the earth and his vocation is to "till the earth." The woman (ishah) was created as a partner/helper for the man and formed from the man's ribs. how are these relationship distorted in 3:1-24 after the sin of disobedience and the divine punishment? Creation in 2:4b-25: the idea of life, with harmonious relations between Thus we see already in the Babylonian Creation Epic Explain how the Jahwist account of creation in 2:4b-25 sets up certain close and harmonious relationships between humans and the earth or between two human sexes. Pre Israelite, perhaps as early as 1700 BCE. Genesis 1:1-2:4a was written around 500 BCE by the Priestly source however, the "tradition" or basic picture of creation: The two accounts are similar because they share in a common heritage of ideas about creation in the ancient Near East. What, according to the lecture, do the similarities suggest about the age of the creation "tradition in Gen 1:1-2:4a? Genesis 1 is not directly dependent on the Enuma Elish. In Priestly account, humans have an elevated position: they are created in God's image and commissioned to dominate and rule the earth and animals State the gist of Hurowitzs answer to the question, Is the creation story Babylonian? In Babylonian account status of humans is low: their task is to do the work that the gods themselves dont want to In Priestly, creation unfolds smoothly as god speaks Stages in creation: firmament-dryland-heavenly lights- humans- banquet/restīabylonian is polytheistic, Priestly is monotheisticīabylonian account, creation of world is the outcome of a war between the gods. Human sexes created in sequence: first the male and later the femaleĪnthropromorphic portrayal of deity What are the important similarities and differences between the Babylonian Creation Epic(Enuma Elish) and the Priestly account of creation? Similarities:īringing order out of a primordial watery chaos (The deep) Starting point of creation= land without growthįirst act of creation= the human vegetation and animals created subsequently Examples would include origin of the two human sexes and the origin of a rainbow What are the major differences between the Priestly and Jahwist accounts of creation in 1:1-2:4a and 2:4b-3:24? Differences of the Jahwist account of Genesis creation story from the Priestly account: 500 BCE) P What is an etiology or an etiological tale? An etiology is a story that tells how the world/life began long ago. Tries to date those sources and discuss authors that it separated List the 4 major sources of the Pentateuch in their chronological order The Documentary Hypothesis, According to Julius Wellhausen, claims that 4 written sources interweave throughout the Pentateuch. Separates out the documents or sources that are now combined in the Pentateuch Source criticism asks about the authorship and date of written literature. What question does it try to answer? a method of interpretation. Pentateuch is an amalgamation of writings by different authors from different times. Who wrote the Pentateuch/Torah? Traditional answer (b/f 1600CE): Pentateuch is a unified work by a single author- Moses was its author.Įarly biblical critics (1600 onward): Moses did not write much of the Pentateuch.
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