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The Primeval history (German: Urgeschichte) is a name given by scholars to the first eleven chapters of the Bible's Genesis, covering the period from the creation to the birth of Abraham. In Jewish worship it comprises the first two weekly Torah readings, Bereshit (parsha) and Noach (parsha). The principal themes of each of the chapters are:

Genesis creation narratives
- Hexameron or six days of creation — chapter 1

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden — chapter 2

Fall of man — chapter 3

Cain and Abel — chapter 4

Genealogies of Genesis

The Kenites, progeny of Cain, invention of pastoralism, of music and of metalworking, Lamech, his wives and sons — chapter 4
The progeny of Seth including Enoch (ancestor of Noah), Methuselah, Lamech (father of Noah) and Noah — chapter 5

Genesis flood narrative

Nephilim and building of Noah's Ark — chapter 6
Description of the Flood — chapter 7
The landing of the Ark on the Mountains of Ararat, dove with olive branch — chapter 8
Noachic covenant and rainbow, Curse of Canaan— chapter 9

Table of NationsorSons of Noah, Nimrod and Ashur, cities of Babel and Nineveh , "And the Earth was divided" — chapter 10

Tower of Babel and continuing Genealogies of Genesis: Shem through Abraham (known as "Abram") — chapter 11

Composition history

There is general agreement among scholars that Genesis 1-11 combines two sources, the Priestly and the non-Priestly (i.e., the Yahwist and the Elohist sources); the Priestly source provides the main narrative and is concerned primarily with worship, the Sabbath and the religious calendar, and rules of ritual purity, while the non-Priestly source is more oriented towards human concerns.^[1] The following table sets out the verses ascribed to the two sources:^[2]

Priestly	Priestly	Non-Priestly
1:1-2:4a	Creation
2:4b-4:26		Creation, Eden, Cain and Abel, descendants of Cain
5:1-24	Descendants of Adam
6:1-8		Sons of God, reason for the Flood
6:9-13	reason for the Flood
6:14-8:22	The Flood and post-Flood renewal	The Flood and post-Flood renewal
9:1-17		Covenant with Noah
9:18-10:27		Noah and his sons (the curse of Canaan)
10:1-32	Table of Nations	Table of Nations
11:1-9		Tower of Babel
11:10-32	Descendants of Noah

References

Blenkinsopp, Joseph (2011). Creation, Un-creation, Re-creation: A discursive commentary on Genesis 1-11. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-37287-1.

Cassuto, Umberto (2012) [1961]. A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Part I) Adam to Noah. Vol. 1. Varda Books. ISBN 965-223-48-0-X.

Cassuto, Umberto (2012) [1964]. A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Part II) Noah to Abraham. Vol. 2. Varda Books. ISBN 1-59045-799-4.

Good, Edwin Marshall (2011). Genesis 1-11: Tales of the Earliest World. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-7497-0.

Hess, Richard S.; Tsumura, David Toshio, eds. (1994). "I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood": Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11. Sources for Biblical and Theological Study. Vol. 4. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 0-931464-88-9.

Louth, Andrew, ed. (2001). Genesis 1-11. Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. Vol. 1. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press. ISBN 0--8308-1471-X.

Thompson, John L., ed. (2012). Genesis 1-11. Reformation Commentary on Scripture. Vol. 1. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press. ISBN 978-0-8308-2951-4.

Westermann, Claus (1984). Genesis 1-11: A Commentary. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing. ISBN 0-8066-1962-7.