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What are arguments about the two Creation narratives in Genesis?
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∙ 15y ago
One argument relates to the fact that there even are two creation accounts at all. This argument says there are not two accounts but two parts of the one account. The first account is the general statement of the creation of the earth and universe. The second part which is from Genesis 2:4a onwards is dealing in more detail with the creation of man, which is only really mentioned generally and with little detail in the first part. Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) concludes that pious readers, believing that the text cannot contain contradictions, ignore the major disjunctions between the two creation stories.
The second argument is that there clearly are two creation accounts in Genesis. Kass says that the second creation story departs from the first not only in content but also in tone, mood and orientation. Scholars recognise the style, language and theology of the 'Priestly Source' in the first account, and the style, language and theology of the 'Yahwist Source' in the second account.
For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoAccording to tradition, there is only one Genesis creation-narrative, with ch.2 serving as an expansion of the brevity of ch.1, not a separate set of events (Rashi commentary, Gen.2:8). In ch.1, God created the universe from nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30; Targum and Nachmanides on Gen. 1:1; Rashi commentary, Gen.1:14), and in ch.2, God performed specific acts within the broader picture.
The same literary devices which the Torah employs to enrich its text, have been used by Bible-critics in an attempt to reassign its authorship.
The Jewish sages, based on ancient tradition, identified many of these devices, which include:
recapping earlier brief passages to elucidate,
employing different names of God to signify His various attributes,
using apparent changes or redundancies to allude to additional unstated details,
speaking in the vernacular that was current during each era,
and many more. While Judaism has always seen the Torah as an intricate tapestry that nonetheless had one Divine source, some modern authors such as Wellhausen (the father of modern Biblical-criticism, 1844-1918) have suggested artificially chopping up the narrative and attributing it to various authors, despite the Torah's explicit statement as to its provenance (Exodus 24:12, Deuteronomy 31:24). This need not concern believers, since his claims have been debunked one by one, as Archaeology and other disciplines have demonstrated the integrity of the Torah. No fragments have ever been found that would support his Documentary Hypothesis, which remains nothing more than an arbitrary claim:
http://religion.answers.com/theory/debunking-the-jepd-documentary-hypothesis
http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=6&article=1131(a Christian author)
http://www.whoreallywrotethebible.com/excerpts/chapter4-1.php
http://www.pearlmancta.com/BiblicalcriticswrongRShlomoCohen.htm
And see also the wider picture:
http://judaism.answers.com/hebrew/does-archaeology-support-the-hebrew-bible
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Where is the story of creation?
Many peoples have creation-narratives, because it is a universal tradition. The account of the Creation in the Hebrew Bible is in the first passages of Genesis. See also:A summary of the Creation-narrative
Which chapter in the Bible is the creation in?
There are two creation accounts, in two chapters of Genesis. There are also fragments of a third creation in Psalms and Job. The first creation account is in Genesis chapter 1, continuing to Genesis 2:4a (the first sentence in verse 4).The second creation account is in Genesis chapter 2, beginning at verse 4b.
Which books in the Bible tells about creation?
There are two creation accounts in the Book of Genesis, plus fragments of a third in the Book of Psalms and the Book of Job.For more information on creation in the Book of Genesis, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
What similarities are shared by the account of creation and the flood narratives?
AnswerThe biblical creation account and the biblical Flood story were both written by the same two authors: the Yahwist ('J' source) and the Priestly author ('P' source). However, in the creation account the Priestly story (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) is kept quite separate from the earlier Yahwist story (Genesis 2:4b-2:25), but in the Flood story, they are interwoven, thus making it less apparent that there are really two stories there.
In which of the first five books of the Old Testament will you find two creation stories?
The Bible begins with the book of Genesis and it is there that the two Creation stories can be found.
How many creation stories are there in the Hebrew scriptures?
There are two complete and quite different creation stories in Genesis - the first in Genesis 1:1-2:4a, the second in Genesis 2:4b-2:25. There are fragments of a third, now incomplete creation story in Psalms and Job.
How can you compare the creation in Genesis to John 1?
AnswerThe two creation stories in Genesis chapters 1 and two have God alone creating the world. The only exception is in the first creation story, where God said, "Let us make man in our image" (Genesis 1:26), implying that someone else was already present.John 1:1-2 harmonises well with Genesis 1:26, as it says that in the beginning, the Word (Jesus) was with God.
Why is woman created with man in Genesis 1 but woman is created out of man in Genesis 2?
The reason for this difference is that there are two quite different creation stories in Genesis, written by two different authors. The first creation story is Genesis 1:1-24a (the first sentence of 2:4) and is believed to have been written by a source now known as the Priestly source. The second is in Genesis 2:4b-2:25 and is believed to have been written by a source now known as the Yahwist source. The creation of man and woman is, of course, not the only difference that scholars note between the two accounts.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
How many stories in a new testament in a bible?
The New Testament in the Bible contains 27 books, which include various stories about the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as well as the early Christian church and its spread throughout the Roman Empire.
When was the creation of the Archangel Michael?
According to some theological suppositions between Genesis 1, verse one and two.
How many Books of the Bible contain creation stories?
Genesis contains two quite different creation stories, Genesis 1:1-2:4a and Genesis 2:4b-2:25, although most believers learn to harmonise their content and regard them as somehow the same story. In addition, Psalms and Job contain fragments of a more primitive Hebrew creation story.
How are the Book of Job and the Book of Genesis different?
The Books of Genesis tells different stories and are of that reason different. However they do both contain creation material.Genesis contains two complete creation stories, at Genesis 1:1-2:4a and 2:4b-2:20. Some scholars think of Genesis chapter 5 as possibly a third creation story.Job contains fragments of a much more primitive creation story, especially in chapter 38ff, where God querulously asked Job where he was when God created the world and if he is so righteous that he could do any of the things that God had done. Here we see suggestions of how at the time of creation God had to fight the chaos monsters, for example the behemoth and the leviathan. Chaos monsters were once closely associated with many creation stories of the Near East.Jewish answer:The books of Genesis and Job are two different things. Genesis recounts the events of the Creation, the Flood, and the lives of the righteous, from Abraham through Joseph.Job is a poetic prophecy concerning the question of the suffering of the righteous.
