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Otra diferencia fundamental, es que estos textos provienen de dos diferentes autores.
Hay cuatro autores principales del texto: la fuente J (autor del Génesis 2), la fuente E (un escritor
que se encontraba originalmente el norte de Israel), la fuente P (autor del Génesis 1), y la fuente D,
llamada así debido a que supuestamente escribió la mayor parte del Deuteronomio.
Sin embargo, hay otros en la mezcla. El más importante de estos se conoce como la fuente R, que
significa Redactor, persona que edita un texto. Que es la figura oscura que tomó todos los diversos
textos y los unificó para formar un texto. Esta figura es muy importante, porque decidió colocar
estos textos muy diferentes y contradictorios uno al lado del otro.
The first eleven chapters of Genesis tell an authoritative story about the beginnings of the world that
contains many contradictions. Scholars believe that the account is not the work of one author, but of
a later editor or “redactor” who collected stories from various traditional sources into one volume.
En Génesis 1, P describe un Dios asombroso, uno que
In Gen. 2, creation is implicitly happening in stages, but they are not spelled out as in Gen. 1. Here
it is mentioned that rain has not yet begun (implying that creation happens in stages), but water has
come from a spring and soaked the ground, so the the dust of the earth is now more like muck or
clay. God gets down in the mud and creates the first individual human. God breathes into it and it
becomes alive. Here, God very literally is getting his hands dirty! The contrast of how humans are
created in the two accounts could not be more different. In one account, God simply speaks and it is
done; in the other, God gets down in the dirt and forms Human, and then breathes life into him. One
account is very impersonal and one is incredibly intimate.
These two views of God, placed hard up against one another, point to the attributes of God, and also
to god’s unknowable nature. In one account, God is awesome and all powerful. No description is
given to suggest that God is even a physical form! In the other, God is up close and personal. He
forms the human out of earth (God has hands), and he breathes life into the human (God has a
mouth and breathes). He is as intimate as breathing!
I submit that this is the genius of R: he sees that God is both, and at the same time, awesome,
remote, all powerful, unknowable, and yet at the same time, totally, intimately, involved in us. R is
not telling us how the creation happened, since he gives us two totally different accounts; he is
telling us about the nature and attributes of God.
You only ask about two small sections, but these differences are found throughout the two sources,
not merely in these few verses about which you asked.
The story of creation begins with Genesis 1 and 2, it explains how the world and it’s living
inhabitants were created from God’s touch. From Genesis 1 we see how the sky, seas, land, animals,
and mankind were created. However Genesis 2 focuses more on the first of mankind, known as
Adam and Eve and how they are made to be. In this paper I will compare Genesis 1 and Genesis 2
and what the main idea for creation is in each one, however in my opinion there is no contradiction
between the two. Genesis 2 merely fills in the details that are "headlined" in Genesis 1. In Genesis 1
we learn how God