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| − | <category>Creation and Re-Creation Post Flood – Bereshit 1 | + | <category name="Bereshit 1 and 6-9"> |
| + | Creation and Re-Creation Post Flood – Bereshit 1 & 6-9 | ||
<p><a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/TanakhLab/Bereshit/1/1/1/31">Tanakh Lab</a><fn>In the Tanakh Lab, click on the Torah icon to view the chapters which are most linguistically similar to Bereshit 1.</fn> demonstrates that Bereshit 6, 7, 8, and 9 are the chapters in Tanakh that have most in common with Bereshit 1. The two stories parallel each other because they represent two creations of the world.</p> | <p><a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/TanakhLab/Bereshit/1/1/1/31">Tanakh Lab</a><fn>In the Tanakh Lab, click on the Torah icon to view the chapters which are most linguistically similar to Bereshit 1.</fn> demonstrates that Bereshit 6, 7, 8, and 9 are the chapters in Tanakh that have most in common with Bereshit 1. The two stories parallel each other because they represent two creations of the world.</p> | ||
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<category>Noach and Avraham | <category>Noach and Avraham | ||
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| − | <p>Using the concordance can helps one find certain points of contact between Avraham and Noach:</p> | + | <p>Using the concordance can helps one find certain points of contact between Avraham and Noach:</p><ul> |
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<li>By clicking on the word ברית in the Mikraot Gedolot on <a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/Tanakh/Bereshit/6.18">Bereshit 6:18,</a> we see in the Concordance that Noach is the first person with whom Hashem establishes a covenant (and that this word appears eight times in his story).  The next person with whom Hashem establishes a covenant is Avraham.  </li> | <li>By clicking on the word ברית in the Mikraot Gedolot on <a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/Tanakh/Bereshit/6.18">Bereshit 6:18,</a> we see in the Concordance that Noach is the first person with whom Hashem establishes a covenant (and that this word appears eight times in his story).  The next person with whom Hashem establishes a covenant is Avraham.  </li> | ||
<li>By clicking on the word מזבח in the Mikraot Gedolot on <a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/Tanakh/Bereshit/8.20">Bereshit 8:20</a>, we see in the Concordance that Noach is the first person to build an altar to Hashem (although he is not the first person to bring sacrifices), indicating that he developed the idea that sacrifices should be brought in a consecrated place.  The next person who continues this practice is Avraham.</li> | <li>By clicking on the word מזבח in the Mikraot Gedolot on <a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/Tanakh/Bereshit/8.20">Bereshit 8:20</a>, we see in the Concordance that Noach is the first person to build an altar to Hashem (although he is not the first person to bring sacrifices), indicating that he developed the idea that sacrifices should be brought in a consecrated place.  The next person who continues this practice is Avraham.</li> | ||
| − | </ul> | + | </ul><p>These similarities reflect the ways in which Noach begins a tradition that finds fuller expression in the lives of the Avot. </p> |
| − | <p>These similarities reflect the ways in which Noach begins a tradition that finds fuller expression in the lives of the Avot. </p> | ||
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Version as of 01:28, 31 May 2023
Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 6-9
Creation and Re-Creation Post Flood – Bereshit 1 & 6-9
Tanakh Lab1 demonstrates that Bereshit 6, 7, 8, and 9 are the chapters in Tanakh that have most in common with Bereshit 1. The two stories parallel each other because they represent two creations of the world.
Tools
- See the Tanakh Lab to compare the two sets of chapters and view their linguistic parallels.
Articles
- See Undoing and Redoing Creation for an analysis of the flood as a story of undoing and redoing creation.
- R. Zvi Grumet’s article The Ideal and the Real explores the notion that Tanakh often presents Hashem’s ideal blueprint, followed by a description of the reality as it played out within this world.
- See The First World and the Second by R. Yonatan Grossman for an exploration of the ways in which man’s essential mission changed after the flood.
- See R. Zeev Weitman's Creation Anew who questions whether the recreation of the world after the flood was any better than the original, focusing on the story of Noach's drunkenness and its parallels to the story of Gan Eden.
- See Noah: Decreation and Recreation by R. Alex Israel for further analysis of the meaning behind the parallels.
“These Are The Generations”
Tools
- Makbilot Bamikra points out the many times that the phrase “אלה תולדות” appears in Sefer Bereshit (see, for example, Bereshit 10:1, 11:1, and 11:27).
Articles
- See this article by R. Menachem Leibtag for an exploration of the significance of genealogical lists in Sefer Bereshit.
Noach and Avraham
Tools
Using the concordance can helps one find certain points of contact between Avraham and Noach:
- By clicking on the word ברית in the Mikraot Gedolot on Bereshit 6:18, we see in the Concordance that Noach is the first person with whom Hashem establishes a covenant (and that this word appears eight times in his story). The next person with whom Hashem establishes a covenant is Avraham.
- By clicking on the word מזבח in the Mikraot Gedolot on Bereshit 8:20, we see in the Concordance that Noach is the first person to build an altar to Hashem (although he is not the first person to bring sacrifices), indicating that he developed the idea that sacrifices should be brought in a consecrated place. The next person who continues this practice is Avraham.
These similarities reflect the ways in which Noach begins a tradition that finds fuller expression in the lives of the Avot.
Articles
- While the Concordance highlighted two important similarities between Noach and Avraham, see The Spiritual Legacy of Noah and Avraham, by R. Michael Rosensweig, for a discussion of the differences between their aspirations and accomplishments
Noach and Yonah
Articles
- See וינחם האלהים על הרעה – וינחם ה' כי עשה את האדם: בין סיפור יונה לסיפור נח by R. Yitzchak Amar for an exploration of the idea that Yonah represents a culmination of the story of Noach and Hashem's promise to never again bring total destruction by flood. Hashem's changing modes of justice, from strict justice to mercy, explain the different outcomes of the sin of the generation of the Flood and the people of Nineveh.
- See Noah, Jonah, and Life After Catastrophe by R. Chaim Steinmetz for an analysis of the ways in which Yonah carries on the legacy of Noach by believing that the wicked deserve just punishment.
- See The Flood and the Destruction of Nineveh for a comparison of the two stories and discussion of why in one case the crime of violence (חמס) led to destruction, but in the other repentance was able to avert the decree.2
Noach and Korach
Articles
- For an interesting analysis of similarities between the stories of destruction and promise in the narratives of Noach and Korach, see בין נח לקרח: מקבילות לשוניות בשתי הפרשות by Dr. Azarya Baitner.
