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{{Short description|First eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis}}
{{Use shortened footnotes|date=July 2021}} 
[[File:HildegardeSixDaysCreation.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The six days of creation]]
The '''primeval history''' is the name given by [[biblical scholar]]s to the first eleven chapters of the [[Book of Genesis]] in the [[Hebrew Bible]]. These chapters convey the story of the first years of [[Chronology of the Bible|the world's existence]].{{sfn|Blenkinsopp|2011|p=ix}}

The body of material tells how God created the world and all its beings and placed the first man and woman ([[Adam and Eve]]) in his [[Garden of Eden]], how the first couple were expelled from God's presence, of the first murder which followed, and God's decision to destroy the world and save only the righteous [[Noah]] and his sons; a new humanity then descended from these sons and spread throughout the world, but, although the new world was as sinful as the old, God resolved never again to destroy the world by flood, and the history ended with [[Terah]], the father of [[Abraham]], from whom descended God's chosen people.{{sfn|Blenkinsopp|2011|p=1}}

The primeval history is generally considered to have been completed along with the rest of the Book of Genesis in the 5th century BCE, but a sizeable minority of scholars have dated it to the 3rd century BCE, pointing to discontinuities between the contents of the work and other parts of the [[Hebrew Bible]].

==Structure and content==
The history contains some of the best-known stories in the Bible plus a number of genealogies, structured around the five-fold repetition of the ''[[toledot]]'' formula ("These are the generations of..."):{{sfn|Blenkinsopp|2011|p=4}}
* The ''toledot'' of heaven and earth ([[Genesis 1:1]]–4:26)
** The [[Genesis creation narrative]] (the combined [[Hexameron]] or six-day cosmic creation-story of Genesis 1 and the human-focused creation-story of Genesis 2)
** The [[Garden of Eden|Eden narrative]] (the story of [[Adam and Eve]] and how they came to be expelled from God's presence)
** [[Cain and Abel]] and the first murder
* The book of the ''toledot'' of Adam (5:1–6:8) (The Hebrew includes the word "book")
** the first of two [[genealogies of Genesis]], the [[Kenites]], descendants of Cain, who invent various aspects of civilised life
** the second genealogy,  the descendants of [[Seth]] the third son of Adam, whose line leads to Noah and to Abraham
** the [[Sons of God]] who couple with the "daughters of men"; the [[Nephilim]], "men of renown"; God's reasons for destroying the world (first account)
* The ''toledot'' of Noah (6–9:28)
** God's reasons for bringing  the Flood (second account), his warning to Noah, and the construction of the Ark
** the [[Genesis flood narrative]] in which the world is destroyed and re-created
** God's [[Noachide covenant|covenant with Noah]], in which God promises never again to destroy the world by water
** Noah the husbandman (the invention of wine), his drunkenness, his three sons, and the [[Curse of Canaan]]
* The ''toledot'' of the sons of Noah (10:1–11:9)
** the Table of Nations (the [[sons of Noah]] and the origins of the nations of the world) and how they came to be scattered across the Earth through the [[Tower of Babel]])
* The ''toledot'' of Shem (11:10–26)
** the descendants of Noah in the line of Shem to [[Terah]], the father of [[Abraham]]

==Composition history==
{{Main|Composition of the Torah}}

===Sources in Genesis===
{{Main|Documentary hypothesis}}
Scholars generally agree that the [[Torah]], the collection of five books of which [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] is the first, achieved something like its current form in the 5th century BCE.{{sfn|Enns|2012|p=5}} However, the almost complete absence of all the characters and incidents mentioned in the Primeval history from the rest of the Hebrew Bible has led a sizeable minority of scholars to conclude that these chapters were composed much later than those that follow, possibly in the 3rd century BC.{{sfn|Gmirkin|2006|pp=240–241}}

Genesis draws on a number of distinct "sources", including the [[Priestly source]], the [[Yahwist]] and the [[Elohist]] – the last two are often referred to collectively as "non-Priestly", but the Elohist is not present in the primeval history and "non-Priestly" and "Yahwist" can be regarded here as interchangeable terms.{{sfn|Carr|2000|p=492}} The following table is based on Robert Kugler and Patrick Hartin, "An Introduction to the Bible", 2009:{{sfn|Kugler|Hartin|2009|p=85}}

{| class="wikitable" style="align: center;"
|-
! style="width:10%;"|Verses<br />
! style="width:45%;"|Priestly<br />
! style="width:45%;"|Non-Priestly (Yahwist)<br />
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|1:1–2:4a
| style="text-align:center;"|First Creation story
| style="text-align:centre;"|
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|2:4b–4:26
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| style="text-align:centre;"|Second Creation story, Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel 
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|5:1–24
| style="text-align:center;"|Descendants of Adam
| style="text-align:centre;"|
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|6:1–8
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| style="text-align:centre;"|Sons of God (Nephilim), reason for the Flood
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|6:9–13
| style="text-align:center;"|Reason for the Flood
| style="text-align:centre;"|
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|6:14–8:22
| style="text-align:center;"|Flood and post-Flood renewal
| style="text-align:centre;"|Flood and post-Flood renewal
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|9:1–17
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| style="text-align:centre;"|Covenant with Noah
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|9:18–27
| style="text-align:center;"|
| style="text-align:centre;"|Drunkenness of Noah/Noah and his sons (the curse of Canaan)
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|10:1–32
| style="text-align:center;"|Table of Nations
| style="text-align:centre;"|Table of Nations
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|11:1–9
| style="text-align:center;"|
| style="text-align:centre;"|Tower of Babel
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|11:10–32
| style="text-align:center;"|Descendants of Noah
| style="text-align:centre;"| 
|}

===Relationship of the primeval history to Genesis 12–50===
Genesis 1–11 shows little relationship to the remainder of Genesis.{{sfn|Sailhamer|2010|p=301 and fn.35}} For example, the names of its characters and its geography – Adam (man) and Eve (life), the Land of Nod ("Wandering"), and so on – are symbolic rather than real, and much of the narratives consist of lists of "firsts": the first murder, the first wine, the first empire-builder.{{sfn|Blenkinsopp|2011|p=2}} Most notably, almost none of the persons, places and stories in it are ever mentioned anywhere else in the Bible.{{sfn|Blenkinsopp|2011|p=2}} This has led some scholars to suppose that the history forms a late composition attached to Genesis and the Pentateuch to serve as an introduction.{{sfn|Sailhamer|2010|p=301}} Just how late is a subject for debate: at one extreme are those who see it as a product of the Hellenistic period, in which case it cannot be earlier than the first decades of the 4th century BCE;{{sfn|Gmirkin|2006|pp=240–241}} on the other hand the  Yahwist source has been dated by some scholars, notably [[John Van Seters]], to the exilic pre-Persian period (the 6th century BCE) precisely because the primeval history contains so much Babylonian influence in the form of myth.{{sfn|Gmirkin|2006|p=6}}<ref group="Note" name="Seters">See John Van Seters, "Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis (1992), pp.80, 155–56.</ref> [[David M. Carr]] argues that the latest edition of the pre-Priestly version of the narratives probably dates to the mid-7th century BCE, during the period of Neo-Assyrian hegemony.{{sfn|Carr|2020|p=245}}

===Mesopotamian (and Egyptian) myths and the primeval history===
Numerous Mesopotamian myths (and one Egyptian myth) are reflected in the primeval history.{{sfn|Kvanvig|2011|p=1}} The myth of [[Atrahasis]], for example, was the first to record a Great Flood. This story was then developed in the Gilgamesh Epic. These two Mesopotamian traditions may have influenced  the story of [[Genesis flood narrative|Noah's flood]].{{sfn|Kvanvig|2011|p=2–3}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Miglio |first1=Adam |title=The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11 |date=2023 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1032020121 |page=Chapter 5 |url=https://www.amazon.com/Gilgamesh-Genesis-Studies-History-Ancient/dp/1032020121/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=}}</ref> The following table sets out the myths behind the various Biblical tropes.{{sfn|Kugler|Hartin|2009|p=53–54}}

{| class="wikitable" style="align: center;"
|-
! style="width:30%;"|Bible story<br />
! style="width:70%;"|Mesopotamian (Egyptian) myth<br />
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|Genesis creation narrative: Genesis 1
| style="text-align:left;"|[[Enuma Elish]], the Babylonian creation myth, has a very similar opening to Genesis 1, refers to such entities as the "Deep" (Hebrew [[Tehom]]), arrives at a cosmology very similar to the one in Genesis 1:6, and shows a similar concern for reckoning time through the creation of heavenly bodies. God's creation of mankind in his image also recalls Mesopotamian myths, as does man's sovereignty over nature. In addition, the way God creates through the spoken word in Genesis 1 mirrors the Egyptian [[Memphite Theology]] in which the god [[Ptah]] creates the world through speech.
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|Genesis creation narrative: Genesis 2
| style="text-align:left;"|The [[Atrahasis]] epic tells how the gods created mankind from dust
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Garden of Eden]]
| style="text-align:left;"|The god and goddess [[Enki]] and [[Ninhursag]] enjoyed a Tree of Life; the serpent in Genesis recalls the god [[Apsu]] in the Enuma Elish.
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Cain and Abel]] 
| style="text-align:left;"|Cain and Abel are paralleled by the gods [[Tammuz (deity)|Dumuzi]] and Enkimdu
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|Genealogies
| style="text-align:left;"|The [[Sumerian King List]], like the list of the descendants of Cain, explains the origin of the elements of civilisation. [[Enoch (ancestor of Noah)|Enoch]], seventh in the line of Adam and taken by God, mirrors the king [[Enmerduranki]] and the sage [[Utuabzu]], also seventh in their lines, taken to dwell with the gods.<ref>Borger, R. (1974). Die Beschwörungsserie Bīt mēseri und die Himmelfahrt Henochs. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 33(<span class="ltr">2</span>), 183–196. http://www.jstor.org/stable/544732 p.192</ref><ref>[https://therealsamizdat.com/tag/utuabzu/ Utuabzu] (October 9, 2015)</ref>
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Genesis flood narrative]]
| style="text-align:left;"|The great deluge is told in a number of versions beginning in the early 2nd millennium; like the later Genesis myth, they tell how humanity survives through one hero and his family.
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ffffec; vertical-align:top;"
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Tower of Babel]] (Genesis 11)
| style="text-align:left;"|While there is no Mesopotamian myth associated with the Tower of Babel, there is scholarly agreement that Babylonian [[ziggurat]]s, or tower-temples, lie behind this story.
|}

==Themes and theology==
===Creation, destruction and re-creation===
The history tells how God creates a world which is good (each action within Genesis 1 ends with God marking it as good),<ref>Verses 10, 12, 18, 21, 25 and 31</ref> and how evil contaminates it through disobedience (the Eden story) and violence (Cain and Abel).{{sfn|Blenkinsopp|2011|p=ix}}

===Chronology===
The [[Genesis creation narrative]] marks the start of the [[Biblical chronology]], the elaborate system of markers, both hidden and overt, marking off a fictive 4000 year history of the world.{{sfn|Levenson|2004|p=11}}<ref group="Note" name="Levenson">"How much history lies behind the story of Genesis? Because the action of the primeval story is not represented as taking place on the plane of ordinary human history and has so many affinities with ancient mythology, it is very far-fetched to speak of its narratives as historical at all." Levenson, 2004, pp.155–56.</ref> From Creation to Abraham, time is calculated by adding the ages of the Patriarchs when their first child is born.{{sfn|Ruiten|2000|p=124}} It seems possible that the period of the Flood is not meant to be included in the count{{sfn|Najm|Guillaume|2007|p=6}} – for example, Shem, born 100 years before the Flood, "begot" his first son two years after it, which should make him 102, but Genesis 11:10–11 specifies that he is only 100, suggesting that time has been suspended.{{sfn|Guillaume|2007|p=252–253}} The period from the birth of Shem's third son [[Arpachshad]] (in the second year after the Flood) to Abraham's migration to Canaan is 365 years,<ref>Franz Delitzsch, [https://books.google.com/books?id=RrVKAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA363 New Commentary on Genesis.] 2 Volumes, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2001. p. 363</ref> mirroring Enoch's life-span of 365 years, the number of days in a year.{{sfn|Alter|1997|p=28}} There are 10 Patriarchs between Adam and the Flood and 10 between the Flood and Abraham – the Septuagint adds an extra ancestor so that the second group is 10 from the Flood to Terah.{{sfn|Davies|2008|p=27}} Noah and Terah each have three sons, of whom the first in each case is the most important.{{sfn|Matthews|1996|p=38}}

==See also==
* [[Allegorical interpretations of Genesis]]
* [[Framework interpretation (Genesis)]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist |group="Note"}}

==References==

===Citations===
{{Reflist|20em}}

===Bibliography===
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|publisher = Routledge
|isbn = 9781317544258
|chapter-url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=NFNsBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Narrative+Reiteration+and+Comparative+Literature%22&pg=PT150
}}
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