Synthesis
Genesis 4:1–26: First Descendants of the Initial Human Couple
Notes on Text and Translation
Diachronic Prologue
Synchronic Analysis
Overview
Commentary
Genesis 4:1–5: Narrative Background—Part One of the Concentric Structure (cf. Part Five, 4:16)
Genesis 4:6–7: ’s Instruction—Part Two of the Concentric Structure (cf. Part Four, 4:9–15)
Genesis 4:8: The Central Crime—Part Three of the Concentric Structure
Genesis 4:9–15: Consequences for Cain—Part Four of the Concentric Structure (cf. Part Two, 4:6–7)
Genesis 4:16: Narrative conclusion—Part Five of the Concentric Structure (cf. Part One, 4:1–5)
Genesis 4:17–18
Genesis 4:19–24
Genesis 4:25–26
Conclusion to the Synchronic Analysis
Diachronic Analysis
Synthesis
Genesis 5:1–32: The Genealogical Line from Adam to Noah and his Sons
Notes on Text and Translation
Diachronic Prologue
Part One: P and Non-P in Gen 5 (and Relations to non-P in Gen 4)
Part Two: A Priestly Toledot Book Standing Behind (most of) Gen 5
Part Three: Links of the Toledot Book to (a Late Iteration of) the Sumerian King List Tradition
Part Four: Scribal Adaptations of the Chronological System
Conclusion to the Diachronic Prologue
Synchronic Analysis
Overview
Commentary
Synthesis
Genesis 6:1–4: The Marriages of Sons of God with Human Daughters and Their Effects
Notes on Text and Translation
Diachronic Prologue
Genesis 6:1–4 as a Part of the Pre-P Primeval History
Traditional Precursors to Gen 6:1–4
Conclusion to the Diachronic Prologue
Synchronic Analysis
Overview
Commentary
Conclusion to the Synchronic Analysis
Synthesis
Genesis 6:5–9:17; 9:28–29: Noah and the Flood
Notes on Text and Translation
Diachronic Prologue
Preliminary Source Analysis of Gen 6:5–9:17
Non-Biblical Precursors to the Noah and Flood Story
Synchronic Analysis
Commentary on the Non-Priestly Story of the Flood and Noah
Diachronic Conclusions on the Non-P Synchronic Level of the Flood Narrative
Commentary on the Priestly Story of Noah and the Flood
Diachronic Conclusions on the Priestly Synchronic Level of the Flood Narrative
Comments on the Present Combined P/non-P Noah-Flood Story
Synthesis
Genesis 9:18–29: The Conclusion of the Noah Account—Noah and His Sons
Notes on Text and Translation
Diachronic Prologue
Genesis 9:18–27 as Pre-Priestly
Ancient Near Eastern Precursors
Literary Stratification: The Addition of Ham (Gen 9:18, 22) and the Spread of Noah’s Family (Gen 9:19)
Synchronic Analysis
Commentary
Concluding Overview of the Non-P Narrative of Noah and his Sons
Synthesis
Genesis 10:1–32: Post-Flood Peoples Descending from Noah’s Sons
Notes on Text and Translation
Introduction and Diachronic Prologue
Synchronic Analysis
Commentary on Pre-P Elements Embedded in Gen 10
Genesis 10:8(b)–12: A Non-Priestly Etiology of Mesopotamian cities and Kingship associated with Nimrod
Genesis 10:15 and 21: An Early Sequel to the Story of Noah and His Sons
Genesis 10:13–14: Egypt’s Fathering of Peoples
Genesis 10:16–19: An Expansion of the Report of Canaan’s Fathering
Conclusions on the Non-P Overview of Noah’s Offspring
Commentary on the P/Verbless Framework of Gen 10
Conclusions on P’s Treatment of the Descendants of Noah’s Sons
Comments on the Present (Conflated P/non-P) Overview of Noah’s Post-Flood Descendants
Synthesis
Genesis 11:1–9: Divine Prevention of Human Collective Power through Linguistic Confusion and the Scattering of Humans
Notes on Text and Translation
Introduction and Diachronic Prologue
Synchronic Analysis
Overview
Commentary
Conclusion to the Synchronic Reading of the Present Text
Diachronic Analysis
Proposed Literary Strata Inside Gen 11:1–9
Non-Biblical Precursors to Gen 11:1–9
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