"Now, after the grand choreography of resonant parallel utterances of the cosmogony, the style changes sharply. Instead of the symmetry of parataxis, hypotaxis is initially prominent: the second account begins with elaborate syntactical subordination in a long complex sentence that uncoils all the way from the second part of [Genesis] verse 4 to the end of verse 7" (Robert Alter, Genesis, comments on Genesis 2:4).
Genesis 2:7 in Alter's work now calls God "YHWH Elohim" rather than Elohim simpliciter.
Another note is the usage of words in genesis Ktizo an poieo and the usage of “good” and “perfect”
ReplyDeleteFormer not used of divine creation until ch 14 ( 2 chapt margins of error) latter is first used in chapter 6 - yet I’m pretty sure that’s what “good” means in 1 else deut 32:6 is a lie