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  • From: barre AT access1.com
  • To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
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  • Subject: P's flood chronology
  • Date: 22 Dec 99 02:14:25 -0800


List,

Here is how I reconstruct P's flood chronology. (Early source critics erred
in assigning the
dove to J and their error has been repeated so that the logic of P's very
simple chronology
was obscured).

2.17.600 The start of the flood (7:10)
[7.17.600] 150 days (five 30 day months) the waters rise (7:24)
[12.17.600] 150 days the waters abate and dove sent forth and returns (8:4, 8)
[12.24.600] After 7 days the dove sent again and returns with olive branch
(8:10-11)
1.1.601 The dove does not return because the earth is dry (8:12-13)

It does appear that the flood story is indeed a conflation of two documents
as postulated by
the DH.

LMB




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L. M. Barre, Ph.D.

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  • P's flood chronology, barre, 12/22/1999

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