Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 6-9/0
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Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 6-9
Creation and Re-Creation Post Flood – Bereshit 1 and 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).
