Abstract
Scholars who work diachronically in the primeval history fully agree that there are different voices in Gen 1; 5; 9:1-17; and 11:10-26 on the one hand, and in Gen 2-4; 9:20- 27; and 11:1-9 on the other. They generally also agree that these voices are mixed in the flood story, Gen 6-8, and in the table of the nations, Gen 10. The historical relationship between P and the early non-P material is better explained by placing P as the oldest text, commented on by early non-P, than the other way around. The theology of P is clearly visible in both the genealogies and in the narratives. The clearest contact between the biblical primeval history and the Babylonian lies in the flood story. Both P and Atrahasis use repetitions to communicate their message. In Atrahasis this is most notable in the use of rigmu , noise as a key word. Keywords:Atrahasis; Babylonian sources; flood story; non-P material; primeval history; theology
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