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The Yahwist ('J' source) creation account starts in the second sentence of Genesis 2:4 and continues through the creation of Adam, then the beasts of the field and fowl of the air, and finally the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:20.
The Priestly ('P' source) creation account starts in Genesis 1:1 and proceeds in a very different sequence through the creation of night and day, the firmament, plants, the heavenly bodies, fish, beasts and fowl, then finally man, both male and female. This account ends in the first sentence of Genesis 2:4.
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How does the Yahwist or Priestly theory compare to the theory of creation?
There are two biblical creation stories (Genesis 1:1-2:4a and Genesis 2:4b-2:20) that are quite distinct and even contradictory, and each should be read on its own terms, rather than assuming a single creation account. The idea that there is only one biblical creation theory arises because pious readers, believing that the text cannot contain contradictions, ignore the major disjunctions between the two creation stories and tend to treat the second story as the fuller, more detailed account of the creation of man that the first story simply reported.The Priestly source is credited with writing the first biblical creation account, and the Yahwist is credited with writing the second biblical creation account. Thus the Priestly source and the Yahwist were responsible for the biblical concept of creation, although of course each of them was passing on older traditions which they had learnt.Essentially the modern documentary hypothesis is not so much to be compared to the biblical concept of creation, but an explanation for its origin.For more information, please visit:http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creationhttp://christianity.answers.com/bible/the-pentateuch-explained
What is the difference between the Priestly version of the creation story and the Yahwist version?
The Priestly ('P' source) creation account starts in Genesis 1:1 and proceeds through the creation of night and day, the firmament, plants, the heavenly bodies, fish, beasts and fowl, then finally man, both male and female, ending in the first sentence of Genesis 2:4. The Priestly account is well-known for creation taking just six days, and God rested on the seventh. Its God is all-powerful and merely has to talk things into existence.The Yahwist ('J' source) creation account is more primitive and is much older in Judaism. It starts in the second sentence of Genesis 2:4 and continues through the creation of Adam, then the beasts of the field and fowl of the air, and finally the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:20, with a very different order of creation than in the first story. In this account, there are limits to God's powers and he can not create living things from nothing. He creates Adam and the beasts from the dirt, but creates Eve from a rib taken from Adam. We are not told how long creation took, but pious readers, believing that the stories are somehow the same, assume that once again creation took just six days.The first story begins with the earth as a watery waste until God separates the waters to make dry land, while the second begins with the dry earth, because God has yet to make it rain. In the first story, man is to have dominion over the earth, whereas in the second story, Adam is to be the servant of the earth and must till the ground. The Priestly account is principally just a theological explanation of our origins, whereas the Yahwist account leads into an important moral story about our longing for immortality.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
Why are there two creation stories in Genesis?
There are two different creation stories:The first is Genesis 1:1-2:3The second is Genesis 2:4-25It is thought this is due to several different texts being put together to form the present Bible and TorahAnswerScholars now realise that there were three main sources, or authors, for the Book of Genesis. There are two creation stories in Genesis because two different sources, the Yahwist and the Priestly Source each wrote his own story. The Yahwist wrote the second creation story (Genesis 2:4b-20) during the ninth century BCE, based on earlier Judahite traditions. The Priestly Source wrote what is now the first creation story (Genesis 1:!-2:4a) during the sixth-century-BCE Babylonian Exile, based on traditions he found among the Babylonians. It appears the Priestly Source was prevented from removing the earlier tradition or found it too difficult, since the Yahwist creation story more or less continues all the way to Noah. Instead, he simply added his own version at the beginning of Genesis.AnswerThe Yahwist and Priestly sources are not from individual authors, most likely, but from different groups with different schools of thought in very different times (during the kingdom as opposed to exile, as noted in previous answer).Also, these two sources, as well as the Elohist, the other source for Genesis, are woven together with the Deuternomist (D) source throughout the rest of the Pentateuch (Gen -Deut), with D being primarily in, and the primary source for, our book of Deuteronomy,That being said, these sources are very, very often woven together without any real apparent concern for explaining inconsistent detailsHowever, this does not disprove the Bible. My take is that we misread some of the Bible. This part, for instance, is not history of the world spoken word - for - word by God. Rather, ancient writers did not think about history the same way moderns do, with strict concern for preciseness. Rather, they were making theological claims about who God is over and against the claims of competing pagan religions in Canaan and Babylon
What are the similarities of the first and second creation accounts in Genesis?
Chapter 2 of Genesis recaps the creation week and provides extra details on Adam and Eve's mode of creation and of their home in Eden. Chapter 1 sets out all of the creative work in order. Both deal with the same story but with different emphasis of the detail.
Do Jehovah witness have a creation story?
Yes, Jehovah's Witnesses believe in the creation account described in the Bible, particularly in the first chapters of the Book of Genesis. They interpret the creation story as a literal account of how God created the universe, including the earth and all living beings in six 24-hour days. This creation story is foundational to their beliefs about the origins of humanity and the natural world.
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.
Why do biblical scholars consider the second creation account older than the first account?
The second creation account, in Genesis 2:4bff, is written in a somewhat more archaic form of Judaism and has a rather more primitive cosmology than is case with the first creation account (Genesis 1:1-2:4a). It is attributed to the Yahwist Source, who wrote early in the first millennium BCE. The Priestly Source, to whom the first creation account is attributed, wrote much later, during or shortly after the Babylonian Exile.The Yahwist account follows on relatively seamlessly through the subsequent chapters of Genesis, so by adding the later account prior to the earlier one, the Priestly Source avoided breaking into the existing sequence of stories.
How does the Yahwist or Priestly theory compare to the theory of creation?
There are two biblical creation stories (Genesis 1:1-2:4a and Genesis 2:4b-2:20) that are quite distinct and even contradictory, and each should be read on its own terms, rather than assuming a single creation account. The idea that there is only one biblical creation theory arises because pious readers, believing that the text cannot contain contradictions, ignore the major disjunctions between the two creation stories and tend to treat the second story as the fuller, more detailed account of the creation of man that the first story simply reported.The Priestly source is credited with writing the first biblical creation account, and the Yahwist is credited with writing the second biblical creation account. Thus the Priestly source and the Yahwist were responsible for the biblical concept of creation, although of course each of them was passing on older traditions which they had learnt.Essentially the modern documentary hypothesis is not so much to be compared to the biblical concept of creation, but an explanation for its origin.For more information, please visit:http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creationhttp://christianity.answers.com/bible/the-pentateuch-explained
What is the recurring statement in Genesis Chapter 1 related to language?
"And God said ..." (In the context of actual creation: Genesis 1:3,6,9,11,14,20,24,26). The more ancient Yahwist creation story in Genesis 2:4b-2:20 has limits to God's power. He needed dust to create Adam, a rib before he could create Eve. But in this, the Priestly account, God merely said that something should be created, and it was created.
What is the difference between the Priestly version of the creation story and the Yahwist version?
The Priestly ('P' source) creation account starts in Genesis 1:1 and proceeds through the creation of night and day, the firmament, plants, the heavenly bodies, fish, beasts and fowl, then finally man, both male and female, ending in the first sentence of Genesis 2:4. The Priestly account is well-known for creation taking just six days, and God rested on the seventh. Its God is all-powerful and merely has to talk things into existence.The Yahwist ('J' source) creation account is more primitive and is much older in Judaism. It starts in the second sentence of Genesis 2:4 and continues through the creation of Adam, then the beasts of the field and fowl of the air, and finally the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:20, with a very different order of creation than in the first story. In this account, there are limits to God's powers and he can not create living things from nothing. He creates Adam and the beasts from the dirt, but creates Eve from a rib taken from Adam. We are not told how long creation took, but pious readers, believing that the stories are somehow the same, assume that once again creation took just six days.The first story begins with the earth as a watery waste until God separates the waters to make dry land, while the second begins with the dry earth, because God has yet to make it rain. In the first story, man is to have dominion over the earth, whereas in the second story, Adam is to be the servant of the earth and must till the ground. The Priestly account is principally just a theological explanation of our origins, whereas the Yahwist account leads into an important moral story about our longing for immortality.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
In which account of the flood is Noah never instructed to build the ark?
Noah is never instructed to build an ark in the Yahwist account.
What do Genesis chapter 2 verses 4-25 mean?
Genesis 2:4b (the second sentence in verse 4) to 2:25 is the oldest creation account in the Book of Genesis, believed to have been written down by the anonymous source now known as the Yahwist some time around 900 BCE. What is now the first creation account (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) was added centuries later by the Priestly Source, so Genesis 2:4b-2:25 is now called the second creation story, in spite of having been written much earlier.Superficially, this is the story of creation, but scholars believe it was really written as a moral tale and was probably not intended to be understood as a literal story of creation.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
Who were the male and female persons God created before Adam and Eve?
Genesis 1:27: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."The passage in Genesis chapter 1 should not be thought of as other people created by God before he created Adam in Genesis 2: and Eve much later in Genesis 2:22. They are simply two completely different stories from two different sources and written by two different authors.The first creation account, in Genesis 1:1-2:4a (the first sentence in verse 2:4) is attributed to the Priestly source. The second creation account, in Genesis 2:4b-2:20 is attributed to the Yahwist source. This is why the first account has God creating people, both male and female after he had created everything else, while the second account has God creating Adam before any other creation and Eve last of all.
What are some of gods attributes that we learn from the first story of creation?
Whereas in the second creation story (beginning at Genesis 2:4b), God's powers are somewhat limited and he can not make living creatures out of nothing, requiring dirt to create Adam and the beasts of the earth, the first creation story (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) portrays God as almost omnipotent, able simply to speak things into existence. This account is credited to the Priestly Source and is much later in Judaism than the second account. it is consistent with the Priestly Source's frequent use of the term El Shaddai ('God Almighty') to refer to his God.In the first creation account, God is remote and impersonal, again consistent with the Priestly Source's view of God. He makes man in his own image, blesses them and gives them instructions to multiply and have dominion over the earth, but does not show the close personal interest that we see in the second account.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
Did the Priestly Source contribute to Deuteronomy?
A:The only real contribution by the Priestly Source to the Book of Deuteronomy is chapter 34. The Priestly Source originally ended the Book of Numbers with an account of the death of Moses and succession of Joshua, but this was later transferred to the end of Deuteronomy.
What is the Lutheran creation story?
Answer The Lutheran creation story is the Christian creation account found in the Bible primarily in Genesis.
Where did creation stories come from?
Tradition says that the Book of Genesis, which opens with an account of creation, was dictated by God to Moses. On this view, the story of creation comes from God, although some notice that there are really two quite different and contradictory histories of the creation and say this is part of the evidence for at least two authors of what is now the Book of Genesis.Scholars recognise that the creation account in Genesis 1:1-2:4a is different in tone, content and style from the creation account that begins in Genesis 2:4b. They say that the second account is much older in Judaism, and attribute it to an anonymous source now known as the Yahwist ('J Source'), writing in the southern Hebrew kingdom of Judah in the ninth century BCE. They see similarities in this history to earlier Canaanite and Mesopotamian account, from which it may have been derived. Scholars attribute the first creation history to an anonymous source now known as the Priestly Source ('P Source') writing during the Babylonian Exile.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
