This will take a little study, for those so inclined and you can bet your ass that the xhristards won't be doing it because their fucking heads will explode.
https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/Genesis_texts.html
Now, if you look at the link above you see cn.edu. CN in this case stands for Carson-Newman University which styles itself a "Christian University" in fucking Tennessee, no less. I'm surprised the fundie asswipes haven't burned it to the ground!
Anyway, this is what Robert Price is talking about when he discusses the piss-poor job of homogenizing the various tales which were floating around Canaan. For that matter, xtians did an equally piss poor job of harmonizing the 4 gospel accounts they settled on with their myriad of contradictory references. But the morons refuse to see it for what it is.
Shitty literature.
https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/Genesis_texts.html
Quote:[size=undefined]To understand what scholars are talking about when they discuss the "J" or "E" or "P" Text of Genesis, it helps if we look closely at the first two chapters of Genesis*, which illustrate the subject. If we note some textual oddities first, it becomes easier to see how scholars formulated the ideas of the J, E, and P text.[/size]
[size=undefined]To begin, when textual criticism and its systematic techniques for analyzing ancient manuscripts first became available in the 18th and 19th centuries (and even earlier in nonscholarly readings from the Renaissance) many readers noticed some odd details in the book we call Genesis. The first part of Genesis (1:1-2:3) differed from the later parts (Genesis 2:4-3:23) in interesting ways. [/size]
Quote:[size=undefined](1) First, each of these two sections of Genesis contains a different introduction for the creation story. Genesis 1:1 launches with the eloquent and imminently quotable,[size=undefined] "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." [/size][/size]
[size=undefined]The text reaches its conclusion in Genesis 2:1, where the narrative voice announces, [size=undefined]"Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array."[/size] Finis. The end. However, a second introduction appears in Genesis 2:4:[size=undefined] "This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth . . . ."[/size] This initially seems a little redundant--at least on the surface of things. It seems to suggest a second creation story rather than one alone.[/size]
Now, if you look at the link above you see cn.edu. CN in this case stands for Carson-Newman University which styles itself a "Christian University" in fucking Tennessee, no less. I'm surprised the fundie asswipes haven't burned it to the ground!
Anyway, this is what Robert Price is talking about when he discusses the piss-poor job of homogenizing the various tales which were floating around Canaan. For that matter, xtians did an equally piss poor job of harmonizing the 4 gospel accounts they settled on with their myriad of contradictory references. But the morons refuse to see it for what it is.
Shitty literature.
