Re: [asa] Slug

Iain writes:

As far as the flood narrative not reading like a poem, it is nonetheless an elaborate Chiastic literary form that is analysed in detail, for example at http://www.grisda.org/origins/06008.htm . The centre point of the chiasm is God's remembrance of Noah in the middle of the storm, and the sequence of the narrative, with its concentric parallels around this central point, is to emphasise the really important fact in the middle. It seems this is a deliberate literary construction which we miss if we just say it's a historical narrative that is in fact wrong.

Bob: Gordon Wenham provides a lengthy literatary analysis of the palistrophic chiastic arrangement of the Flood Narrative in in his Word Commentary on Genesis, vol. 1, pp. 155-158, drawing upon Anderson's pattern, as does Shea in the article Iain referenced above. I agree with Iain that the literary structure of the unit, a skillful redaction of the editor's sources in my view, needs to be taken into account.

Bob

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Received on Fri Jun 16 07:17:19 2006