{"id":797,"date":"2020-12-16T21:36:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/?p=797"},"modified":"2020-12-16T21:36:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:36:45","slug":"9-10-creation-stories-continued-flood-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/2020\/12\/16\/9-10-creation-stories-continued-flood-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/10 Creation stories Continued; Flood Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found our assigned reading of the flood stories very interesting. It showed both the Yahwist Version and also the Priestly Writers Version. I was surprised at how short the Yahwist version was. It seemed in the other version there were much more details. Between the two there were also significant differences.<\/p>\n<p>One difference I found interesting was the nature of the flood. In the Yahwist version, the flood is presented as more like heavy rain that after a while was able to lift the ark off the ground. In the Priestly Writer&#8217;s version, however, the flood is portrayed as a &#8220;cosmic upheaval.&#8221; This is a big difference for me. I think that the cosmic upheaval version perhaps seems more like a myth because of this element of a more cosmic destruction. In the summary it says &#8220;the cosmic waters above the heavens and the waters of the cosmic deep below the earth effect a return to chaos.&#8221; This is something that will really affect how I view and read the bible in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found our assigned reading of the flood stories very interesting. It showed both the Yahwist Version and also the Priestly Writers Version. I was surprised at how short the Yahwist version was. It seemed in the other version there were much more details. Between the two there were also significant differences. One difference I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196862,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}