Genesis 1 - 11

    1:2-2:4 2:4-25 3 4:1-16 4:17-26 5 6:1-8 6:9-22
8:1-5
8:13-19
9:1-17		 7:1-24
8:6-12
8:20-22
9:18-28		 10 11:1-9 11:10-26 11:27-30
Priestly
550 BCE
in exile
liturgical
 
creation

6 days
       
Seth’s descendants
 
FLOOD:
arc construction.
2 of every creature,
blessing, meat eating allowed, covenant.
never again
(flood)
 
table of nations
 
patriarchs
 
Yahwist
900 BCE
southern
story-telling
   
creation,
2 stories:
Made man, garden, animals, woman.

Gave humans care over garden.
Garden of Eden,
explains:
snakes crawl,
pain of childbirth,
people work,
wear clothes,
people die,
sexual attraction
Cain
Cain’s descendants
 
giants born of sin
 
FLOOD:
7 of clean,
2 of unclean,
40 days,
raven/dove,
burnt offering,
never again
(flood),
Noah’s sons
 
tower of Babel
 
Abraham

place names near Haran in Mesop.

Terah,
Haran,
Nahor
story
element		   orderly process food for
gods		 snake conflict between brothers genealogy genealogy reason for flood renewal sin-punishment-new start,
raven/dove,
burnt offering		 genealogy sin still exists genealogy family origins
Babylonian/
Mesopo-
tamian myth
 
Enuma Elish
Legend of Adapa
Epic of Gilgamesh
         
Epic of Gilgamesh: Utnapishtim