ENGLIT 0597 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Masoretic Text, Documentary Hypothesis, Jahwist
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Immediate response god speaks and creation occurs. More poetic repetition, formulaic (creating order out of chaos) Day 1 light day 2 sky, separation of waters day 3 land and plants day 4 heavenly lights. Day 5 water and sky animals day 6 animals and man day 7 god rests (sabbath) Speaks creation, determines if it is good, and then another day. Etiology of marriage practices (leave father and become one flesh), childbirth, hard hunting, good/evil, snakes with no legs. God is called yahweh or lord (3rd 2nd bce it came about that you don"t say the name of god/yahweh, so they said adonai which means my lord) Etiology narratives that explain origins of things. Masoretic text established vowels with lines (so if you combine the vowels from adenine and yahweh you get jehovah) Examining original texts and determining their source; different creations have been combined.
