re: #339 Aceofwhat?

IIRC, the flood story and the Gilgamesh saga are often referenced in common, but not the creation story? And there is one creation story and one summary, not two contradictory stories. One of the stories, IIRC, was not written in a manner designed to be read in a temporal fashion.

There are two stories, written at different times, in different styles, with different vocabularies and even different words for “God”. They were later redacted into one, supposedly. But you can still see the seams.

The smoothing over of exegesis and interpretation came later, and still proceeds today.

You don’t want to argue text criticism with Walter, believe me. He’ll expel you from the Garden.