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De Gruyter eBooks, Oct 22, 2018
This chapter presents what the authors have found to be the P-source in the primeval history: 1:1... more This chapter presents what the authors have found to be the P-source in the primeval history: 1:1-2:3: the Creation Story; 5: the Genealogy of Adam; 6:9-8:19*: the Flood Story; 9:1-17: new World Order and Covenant; 10*: the Descendants of Noah's sons; and 11:10-26: the Genealogy of Noah. The creation and the flood stories stand in an antithetic relationship. The P source continues the flood story in the sequence of the new world order and covenant. The most important triad of commandments, diet, circumcision and Sabbath, in P's theology, is linked to each of the covenants, narrowing toward the Sabbath as the particular sign of the holy people. The similarities between the stories concern both the material often ascribed to P and the non-P material. This demonstrates that there is only one author in the Genesis version. Keywords:Biblical Flood story; Creation story; Flood story; genealogy of Noah; Genesis; P source; primeval history; Sabbath; theology
Within the whole of unit 1:1-11:26 there is a general agreement that P material is found in Gen 1... more Within the whole of unit 1:1-11:26 there is a general agreement that P material is found in Gen 1 (the creation), 5 (genealogy from Adam to Noah), 9:1-17 (new world order and covenant), and 11:10-26 (genealogy from Shem to Abram). This chapter considers what is P and non-P material in the flood story. There needs to be an answer why the flood story is so different. The authors aim at filtering out what they regard as the P material. Among the different approaches to the problem there are two that stand out as clearly alternative, both being in the framework of the traditional documentary hypothesis. One is to regard P as the primary source and the material assigned to J as additions; the other is the other way round, where J is the primary source and P is additional material. Keywords:flood story; non-priestly material; priestly material
In the text of P, there are only two narratives, creation and flood, placed antithetically to eac... more In the text of P, there are only two narratives, creation and flood, placed antithetically to each other; adding the non-P material, the story of the flood is built into a series of narratives before and after. There is one text among these narratives that clearly stands out: Gen 6:1-4 displays so many features different from both P and the other non-P material that it has to be treated separately. Non-P has more focus on culture than on cult. By focusing on culture, the non-P material emphasizes a feature missing in P, but very clearly in the foreground of Atrahasis. Non-P is occupied with the problematic boundaries between the human and the divine. There is one place where non-P deviates from both P and Atrahasis: non-P does not report any new world order after the flood, only the promise that God will never again destroy his creation. Keywords:Atrahasis; creation story; flood story; God; non-P material
Superscription to the Book 1:1 The words of the blessing with which Enoch blessed the righteous c... more Superscription to the Book 1:1 The words of the blessing with which Enoch blessed the righteous chosen who will be present on the day of tribulation, to remove all the enemies; and the righteous will be saved. Introduction: An Oracle of Judgment (1:2-5:9) 2 And he took up his discourse a and said, "Enoch, a righteous man whose eyes were opened by God, who had the vision of the Holy One and of heaven, which he showed me. From the words of the watchers and holy ones I heard everything; and as I heard everything from them, I also understood what I saw. Not for this generation do I expound, but concerning one that is distant I speak. 3 And concerning the chosen I speak now, and concerning them I take up my discourse. The Theophany "The Great Holy One will come forth from his dwelling, 4 and the eternal God will tread from thence upon Mount Sinai.
Horizons in Biblical Theology, 1989
Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman period, 2004
There is no doubt that the biblical story in Genesis and Exodus, extending from creation to Sinai... more There is no doubt that the biblical story in Genesis and Exodus, extending from creation to Sinai, forms the backbone of the narrative in Jubilees. Often analyses of Jubilees concentrate on this aspect, without paying sufficient attention to the narrative design in Jubilees itself. In this article some common tools in narratology are applied to focus on Jubilees as a whole. In the narrative structures it appears that the Enochic traditions are formative. Moses is placed in the front of the narrative as a witness not to the torah of the Pentateuch, but to a narrative shaped to give room for the Enochic traditions. Thus Jubilees mediates between the Mosaic and Enochic traditions, using Moses to emphasise the importance of Enoch. The two figures represent two different attitudes toward revelation, the unique concentration on Sinai as the centre of history and the common mythical world-view that the foundational events took place in primeval time. 1. B Q, E I My point of departure for this reading of the Book of Jubilees is a concrete observation made in an analysis of how the theme of Gen 6:3 was treated in the Watcher Story in Enoch and in Jubilees. 2 VanderKam
Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 1984
... Den Ursprung des Bilder-reichtums von Dan 7 haben wir in mesopotamischen Unterweltsvisionen .... more ... Den Ursprung des Bilder-reichtums von Dan 7 haben wir in mesopotamischen Unterweltsvisionen ... prophetischer Berufung ist auch aus anderen alttestamentlichen Texten be-kannt (Jes 6, siehe auch 1 ... die Einteilung, die aus den formalen Elementen her-vorgeht.6 Wenn man ...
Teologisk tidsskrift, Jun 5, 2014
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, 2004
Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 1978
... Weil dies der hervortretendeste Zug der Vision ist, wird die Haupt-struktur in den bekanntest... more ... Weil dies der hervortretendeste Zug der Vision ist, wird die Haupt-struktur in den bekanntesten Kommentaren davon bestimmt: 1. Teil: V. 2 - 8; 2. Teil: V. 9-14.1 (So in den Kommentaren von Marti, Charles, Bentzen, 1 V. 1 ist Zeitangabe und Überschrift der Vision und Deutung. ...
Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 1981
... study that this, as well as his equipment and attitude, means that the man is understood as a... more ... study that this, as well as his equipment and attitude, means that the man is understood as a victorious warrior. ... These three semantic values correspond exactly to the semantic features inDan 7: a) bar anas corresponds to the angelic beings, the mediators between god and ...
Kirke og kultur, Sep 18, 2004
De Gruyter eBooks, Oct 22, 2018
This chapter presents what the authors have found to be the P-source in the primeval history: 1:1... more This chapter presents what the authors have found to be the P-source in the primeval history: 1:1-2:3: the Creation Story; 5: the Genealogy of Adam; 6:9-8:19*: the Flood Story; 9:1-17: new World Order and Covenant; 10*: the Descendants of Noah's sons; and 11:10-26: the Genealogy of Noah. The creation and the flood stories stand in an antithetic relationship. The P source continues the flood story in the sequence of the new world order and covenant. The most important triad of commandments, diet, circumcision and Sabbath, in P's theology, is linked to each of the covenants, narrowing toward the Sabbath as the particular sign of the holy people. The similarities between the stories concern both the material often ascribed to P and the non-P material. This demonstrates that there is only one author in the Genesis version. Keywords:Biblical Flood story; Creation story; Flood story; genealogy of Noah; Genesis; P source; primeval history; Sabbath; theology
Within the whole of unit 1:1-11:26 there is a general agreement that P material is found in Gen 1... more Within the whole of unit 1:1-11:26 there is a general agreement that P material is found in Gen 1 (the creation), 5 (genealogy from Adam to Noah), 9:1-17 (new world order and covenant), and 11:10-26 (genealogy from Shem to Abram). This chapter considers what is P and non-P material in the flood story. There needs to be an answer why the flood story is so different. The authors aim at filtering out what they regard as the P material. Among the different approaches to the problem there are two that stand out as clearly alternative, both being in the framework of the traditional documentary hypothesis. One is to regard P as the primary source and the material assigned to J as additions; the other is the other way round, where J is the primary source and P is additional material. Keywords:flood story; non-priestly material; priestly material
In the text of P, there are only two narratives, creation and flood, placed antithetically to eac... more In the text of P, there are only two narratives, creation and flood, placed antithetically to each other; adding the non-P material, the story of the flood is built into a series of narratives before and after. There is one text among these narratives that clearly stands out: Gen 6:1-4 displays so many features different from both P and the other non-P material that it has to be treated separately. Non-P has more focus on culture than on cult. By focusing on culture, the non-P material emphasizes a feature missing in P, but very clearly in the foreground of Atrahasis. Non-P is occupied with the problematic boundaries between the human and the divine. There is one place where non-P deviates from both P and Atrahasis: non-P does not report any new world order after the flood, only the promise that God will never again destroy his creation. Keywords:Atrahasis; creation story; flood story; God; non-P material
Superscription to the Book 1:1 The words of the blessing with which Enoch blessed the righteous c... more Superscription to the Book 1:1 The words of the blessing with which Enoch blessed the righteous chosen who will be present on the day of tribulation, to remove all the enemies; and the righteous will be saved. Introduction: An Oracle of Judgment (1:2-5:9) 2 And he took up his discourse a and said, "Enoch, a righteous man whose eyes were opened by God, who had the vision of the Holy One and of heaven, which he showed me. From the words of the watchers and holy ones I heard everything; and as I heard everything from them, I also understood what I saw. Not for this generation do I expound, but concerning one that is distant I speak. 3 And concerning the chosen I speak now, and concerning them I take up my discourse. The Theophany "The Great Holy One will come forth from his dwelling, 4 and the eternal God will tread from thence upon Mount Sinai.
Horizons in Biblical Theology, 1989
Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman period, 2004
There is no doubt that the biblical story in Genesis and Exodus, extending from creation to Sinai... more There is no doubt that the biblical story in Genesis and Exodus, extending from creation to Sinai, forms the backbone of the narrative in Jubilees. Often analyses of Jubilees concentrate on this aspect, without paying sufficient attention to the narrative design in Jubilees itself. In this article some common tools in narratology are applied to focus on Jubilees as a whole. In the narrative structures it appears that the Enochic traditions are formative. Moses is placed in the front of the narrative as a witness not to the torah of the Pentateuch, but to a narrative shaped to give room for the Enochic traditions. Thus Jubilees mediates between the Mosaic and Enochic traditions, using Moses to emphasise the importance of Enoch. The two figures represent two different attitudes toward revelation, the unique concentration on Sinai as the centre of history and the common mythical world-view that the foundational events took place in primeval time. 1. B Q, E I My point of departure for this reading of the Book of Jubilees is a concrete observation made in an analysis of how the theme of Gen 6:3 was treated in the Watcher Story in Enoch and in Jubilees. 2 VanderKam
Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 1984
... Den Ursprung des Bilder-reichtums von Dan 7 haben wir in mesopotamischen Unterweltsvisionen .... more ... Den Ursprung des Bilder-reichtums von Dan 7 haben wir in mesopotamischen Unterweltsvisionen ... prophetischer Berufung ist auch aus anderen alttestamentlichen Texten be-kannt (Jes 6, siehe auch 1 ... die Einteilung, die aus den formalen Elementen her-vorgeht.6 Wenn man ...
Teologisk tidsskrift, Jun 5, 2014
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, 2004
Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 1978
... Weil dies der hervortretendeste Zug der Vision ist, wird die Haupt-struktur in den bekanntest... more ... Weil dies der hervortretendeste Zug der Vision ist, wird die Haupt-struktur in den bekanntesten Kommentaren davon bestimmt: 1. Teil: V. 2 - 8; 2. Teil: V. 9-14.1 (So in den Kommentaren von Marti, Charles, Bentzen, 1 V. 1 ist Zeitangabe und Überschrift der Vision und Deutung. ...
Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, 1981
... study that this, as well as his equipment and attitude, means that the man is understood as a... more ... study that this, as well as his equipment and attitude, means that the man is understood as a victorious warrior. ... These three semantic values correspond exactly to the semantic features inDan 7: a) bar anas corresponds to the angelic beings, the mediators between god and ...
Kirke og kultur, Sep 18, 2004