REL 1004 Chapter : The Flood Story
Document Summary
The flood story: source criticism j and p interwined. 1700 bce: partial synapsis of the epic, parallels between gilgamesh story of flood and gen 5-9, main difference concerns the reason for the flood, frymer-kensky"s essay. Don"t kill or eat the blood of animals that you kill. What the babylonian flood stories can and cannot teach us about the. The flood is a great cleansing of the earth. The structure of the atrahasis epic suggests that (1) the biblical flood is a divine solution to an antediluvian problem, and (2) the nature of that problem is reflected in how the worlf changes after the flood. Seen in this light the biblical flood appears as gods attempt to cleanse the earth from the pollution bu human violence especially murder. 2. form criticism literature certaingenre written literature. oral stage of the biblical literature by means of genre analysis.
