written documents

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folk tales
genealogies
unique stories
GENESIS
written documents
near east myth
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YAHWIST TEXT

• written during the time of the
  monarchy.ca 1000-900 BCE
• Court history of united kingdom
• of Israel and Judah

Time of peace, prosperity, play
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YAHWEH
LORD GOD
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CHAOS
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stream arising from earth
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LANGUAGE OF PUN
M d a
Human, earthling
H m d a
Hummas, earth
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Beautiful garden for human
human put in garden to work (d b ) it
life
Knowledge of good/ evil
boundary set
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The Human Needs Community
eenter the animals
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anesthesiologist
puts human to sleep
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surgeon
takes from its side and closes the flesh
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builder
builds woman
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match-maker
v y
h v y
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Nk l
therefore
aetiology
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LANGUAGE PATTERNSGENESIS 22537

• 225 And they were naked (myMwr)),the two of
  them, and they werent ashamed
• 37 And the eyes of the two of them were opened,
  and they saw they were naked (mMry), and they
  sewed fig leaves and made for themselves
  loincloths.

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And the serpent was shrewd (mwr)) more than any
other living creature of the field that Yahweh
God made 31
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Yahweh God knows that on the day of your eating
from it your eyes will become opened, and you
will become like gods, knowing good and evil 35
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And the woman saw that good was the tree for
eating, and that it was pleasurable to the eyes
and that the tree was desirable to make one wise,
and she ate, and she gave (ntn) also to the man
who was with her, and he ate 36
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And they were opened, the eyes of the two of
them,
and they knew that naked they were, and they
sewed fig leaves and made for themselves
loincloths 37
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CLOTHING ETIQUETTE

• humans naked, not ashamed
• humans sew leaves together for
• loincloth
• God makes leather clothes for humans

• animals naked
• humans K-mart
• quality cloths
• gods fine linen
• clothes

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knowledge of
GOOD EVIL
awareness of choices consequences
ability for moral discernment deliberation
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JUDGMENT
serpent cursed (rra)
woman to have pain (bC) in pregnancies
man to toil earth in pain (bC)
woman will desire man
he will rule over her
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CONSEQUENCES
And the man called the name of his wife Eve
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power of namingman now dominant over woman
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CONSEQUENCES
God makes leather clothes for humans and clothes
them
human status higher than before
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CONSEQUENCES
And Yahweh God said, behold the human (mda) has
become like one of us, knowing good and evil, and
now lest the human
stretch out the hand to the tree of life and eat
and live forever 322
acknowledging human gain setting boundaries,
God drives humans into
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the world
as we know it