Reading the Flood Narrative in Gen 6-9 in Context : A Literary-Theological Analysis
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The flood narrative has intrinsic difficulties such as different names of God in the flood narrative, repetitions, and contradictions of text. Due to these literary features, the flood narrative has been understood as a crucial evidence of two sources hypothesis that J and P sources have been conflated to construct the present text. Based on this assumption, scholars who advocate the Documentary Hypothesis have attempted to dissect the text into J and P according to their criteria of the sources. Our research on the history of this scholarly attempts, however, show that it is entirely fruitless to dissect the current text into different sources to find original sources. The major reasons of their failure come from their hypothetical premises and speculative methodology. Furthermore, a mechanical division of the flood text into J and P sources by no means help the reader to understand the textual meaning of the flood narrative. Thus, this attempt threatens the text itself and its interpretation. In opposition to the Documentary Hypothesis, this study argues for a literary unity of the flood narrative in Genesis and propose an alternative way of understanding the flood narrative in the given context. For this purpose, the flood narrative is investigated within the immediate and larger context. Our investigations of the flood narrative show that the flood narrative is a unified literary text framed chiastic pattern through which the author not only shows the plot of the narrative but emphasizes his theological message. The literary unity from immediate context also help us see the literary role of the flood narrative in a larger context. In Genesis, within the theological framework of “Creation-Corruption-Judgment-Deliverance” the flood narrative plays a crucial role in connecting between antediluvian and postdiluvian whereby the process of deterioration ends and the process of renewal begins.
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The flood narrative has intrinsic difficulties such as different names of God in the flood narrative, repetitions, and contradictions of text. Due to these literary features, the flood narrative has been understood as a crucial evidence of two sources hypothesis that J and P sources have been conflated to construct the present text. Based on this assumption, scholars who advocate the Documentary Hypothesis have attempted to dissect the text into J and P according to their criteria of the sources. Our research on the history of this scholarly attempts, however, show that it is entirely fruitless to dissect the current text into different sources to find original sources. The major reasons of their failure come from their hypothetical premises and speculative methodology. Furthermore, a mechanical division of the flood text into J and P sources by no means help the reader to understand the textual meaning of the flood narrative. Thus, this attempt threatens the text itself and its interpretation. In opposition to the Documentary Hypothesis, this study argues for a literary unity of the flood narrative in Genesis and propose an alternative way of understanding the flood narrative in the given context. For this purpose, the flood narrative is investigated within the immediate and larger context. Our investigations of the flood narrative show that the flood narrative is a unified literary text framed chiastic pattern through which the author not only shows the plot of the narrative but emphasizes his theological message. The literary unity from immediate context also help us see the literary role of the flood narrative in a larger context. In Genesis, within the theological framework of “Creation-Corruption-Judgment-Deliverance” the flood narrative plays a crucial role in connecting between antediluvian and postdiluvian whereby the process of deterioration ends and the process of renewal begins.
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