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Frederik D Schreef:
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> Most scholars will point out that the biblical
> flood story is actually two flood epics
> intertwined into one. However, unlike the two
> biblical creation stories (Genesis 1:1-2:4a and
> Genesis 2:4b-25), which were set one after the
> other in the Hebrew Bible, the two original flood
> stories appear to have been edited into a single
> narrative. The combined story preserves vestigial
> indicators that the account was originally two
> separate narratives. For example, Genesis 6:19-20
> states that there were to be one pair of each
> species of animal on the ark, one male and one
> female:
>
> And of every living thing, of all flesh, you shall
> bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them
> alive with you; they shall be male and female. Of
> the birds according to their kinds, and of the
> animals according to their kinds, of every
> creeping thing of the ground according to its
> kind, two of every kind shall come in to you, to
> keep them alive.
>
> However, in Genesis 7:2-3, which was originally a
> separate flood account, it states:
>
> Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals,
> the male and its mate; and a pair of the animals
> that are not clean, the male and its mate; and
> seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and
> female, to keep their kind alive on the face of
> all the earth.
>
> Thus, there are two different numbers given for
> the number of animals on the ark: one pair (male
> and female) in Genesis 6, and seven pairs of clean
> and one pair of unclean (male and female) in
> Genesis 7. The integration of two different
> numbers is evidence of two originally separate
> flood accounts.
>
> Likewise, Genesis 7:17 states that the flood
> lasted 40 days:
>
> The flood continued forty days on the earth; and
> the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it
> rose high above the earth.
>
> But Genesis 7:24, a portion of the second flood
> story, states that the flood remained for 150
> days:
>
> And the waters swelled on the earth for one
> hundred fifty days.
>
> Shortly thereafter in Genesis 8:6, the story
> switches back to the first flood story, and the
> number 40 returns:
>
> At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of
> the ark that he had made.
>
> Thus, not only are different numbers used for the
> number of animals on the ark in the two Hebrew
> flood stories, but different time periods were
> given for the flooding after the rains: 40 and 150
> days.
>
> Further evidence for the presence of two flood
> stories comes from the fact that in the narratives
> that speak about 40 days of flooding, god is
> referred to as the divine name YHWH, which
> supposedly was not revealed to readers until the
> episode of the burning bush in Exodus 3. However,
> in the portions of the flood texts that refer to
> 150 days of flooding, god is referred to as
> elohim, the Hebrew word for “god.” The two
> different Hebrew flood narratives refer to god by
> different names rather consistently. Thus, the
> textual evidence demonstrates that two flood
> narratives, most likely derived from earlier
> Assyrian and Sumerian flood narratives, were
> combined and adapted to fit the Israelite’s
> monotheistic faith and communicate lessons of a
> wrathful, destructive god, a regretful (Genesis
> 6:6) yet repentant god, and the origin of
> rainbows.10
Bs'd
Ontzettend simpele exegese, waarvan, als je de tekst rustig in zijn geheel leest, niks overblijft.
Overigens geeft Tjarko ook hiervoor goede verklaringen, maar ik ga dat niet allemaal overtypen.
