After reading both of the Genesis creation accounts, what major differences in vocabulary, style, and order do you recognize? What differences in meaning or purpose are present in each of the creation myths? (The instructor might provide the creation passages to the students for analysis.)

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The Answer is Students should note the different terms used for the divinity: God vs. YHWH God (or Lord God), the organized time structure of the first story versus the more inexact temporal frame of the second story, the characterization of God as distant in the first versus anthropomorphized in the second story, and the creation of humanity before vegetation and animals in the second story versus as the climax of the first story. As for meaning or purpose, students should reference the ordered world of the first story, the importance of Sabbath, and humanity as the capstone of creation. For the second story, students should reference various etiologies about sex and gender, the need to work, and the concept of sin.

After Reading Both of the Genesis Creation Accounts, What Major