REL 1004 Lecture : The Flood Story Lecture
Document Summary
The flood story lecture: source criticism: j and p intertwined. Evidence: two divine names, yahweh and elohim is used alternately throughout the story, two beginnings: 6:5-8 (j) and 6: 9-11 (p, different instructions regarding the animals: 6:19-20 (p) and 7:2- When yahweh smelled the pleasing odor, he said he will never flood the world again: p= elohimi blessed noah and his sons and said be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth. God then made a covenant with noah and his descendants that he would never flood the earth to destroy it again: same basic plot in the j and p versions, 1. The deity destroys the world with a flood: 2. This flood was the divine response to human evil: 3. Noah, his family, and the animals are saved in an ark: age of the flood tradition, it is certainly as old as the source writers, j and p, but.
