Thus in six days God completed His work of creation, and as He reviewed it He uttered the same verdict on the whole, only in a heightened form (very good and not merely good) that He had uttered on the successive stages. For the whole is not the mere sum of the parts, it is a unity in which these se... [ Continue Reading ]
J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story by differences in form and in matter. The regular and precise arrangement, the oft-repeated formulæ,... [ Continue Reading ]
The narrative begins with the words In the day, but the construction is uncertain. Perhaps Genesis 2:5 f. is a parenthesis, so that man was formed at the period when earth and heaven (J's phrase for P's the heaven and the earth) were made, before there was any vegetation. The absence of vegetation i... [ Continue Reading ]
J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story by differences in form and in matter. The regular and precise arrangement, the oft-repeated formulæ,... [ Continue Reading ]