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Myths of the Beginning 35 act to declare good. The narrative, however, still has him bless and sanctify the last day. On the third and sixth day, however, God also declares something good in the middle of the day. We will consider the first mid-day declaration in this discussion, and the other mid-day declaration when we look at Myth #15. The phrase “that it was good” constitutes a textual formula. Its placement at the end of each day’s activities serves to signify that the day’s actions were completed and that God liked what he saw. So, why is there no such declaration at the end of the second day, and why does the third day have two such declarations? The mid-day declaration on the third day takes place after God gathered the waters and created the dry land. The second declaration on that day occurs after God created the vegetation. This textual arrangement is puzzling. Most biblical scholars accept that the Creation account is mythological but they offer up no useful explanation for why biblical scribes omitted the textual formula on the second day and introduced it twice on the third day. Many religiously orthodox interpreters, on the other hand, suggest that God intended to gather the waters together and create dry land on the second day, after raising the firmament, but he didn’t have time to complete the task. Therefore, he reserved the blessing until after completing the task on the next day. Although this explanation assumes a literal interpretation of the day as a fixed duration of time, it overlooks God’s omnipotence and that the tasks in question were certainly far less taxing than, say, creating the sun or any other single star, which would take far more energy than simply raising a firmament and gathering the waters on the tiny little earth. Yet, God created all of the stars, as well as the planets and the moon all on one day. The obvious solution to this paradox is that the biblical redactors made a mistake, the equivalent of a misplaced cut and paste job. Since the blessing for the second day doesn’t occur until the middle of the third day, it seems reasonable to conclude that the gathering of the waters together was part of the second day’s events, a logical followup to the raising of the firmament in the middle of the waters. The biblical redactor appears to have assumed that the emerging dry land belonged more logically with the appearance of vegetation, so he prematurely inserted a break in the second day and
36 101 Myths of the Bible carried the second day’s events over to the third day. But he wasn’t free to insert a blessing at the point where he ended the second day. Instead, he left the blessing in place as it appeared in the original text, after the gathering of the waters. By transferring the story of the emerging dry land to the second day, we solve the problem of the missing benediction. Such restoration places the textual formula at the end of each day’s events, where it belongs.
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Contents Preface . . . . . . . . .
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Table of Contents vii 48. Abraham c
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Preface n 101 Myths of the Bible, I
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Preface xi Moses, according to the
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Preface xiii breakup of Solomon’s
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90 yth #39: The rain lasted forty d
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92 yth #40: The flood covered the e
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94 yth #42: All living creatures no
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yths of the Founders AN OVERVIEW he
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Myths of the Founders 109 and siste
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Myths of the Founders 111 Joseph ha
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Myths of the Founders 113 In the fi
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yth #48: Abraham came from Ur of th
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yth #49: Abraham left Egypt to go t
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Myths of the Founders 119 But, no s
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Myths of the Founders 121 Genesis c
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Myths of the Founders 123 said, My
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Myths of the Founders 125 handful o
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yth #51: Lot’s wife turned into a
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yth #52: Lot fathered Ammon and Moa
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yth #53: Abraham pretended that Sar
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Myths of the Founders 133 tell thee
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yth #54: Jacob and Esau fought in t
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Myths of the Founders 137 Plutarch
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Myths of the Founders 139 Genesis t
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Myths of the Founders 141 to one of
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Myths of the Founders 143 give all
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yth #57: Jacob wrestled with a stra
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Myths of the Founders 147 In additi
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Myths of the Founders 149 major cul
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yth #60: Jacob buried Rachel in Bet
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Myths of the Founders 153 The Egypt
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Myths of the Founders 155 The main
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Myths of the Founders 157 In the E
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Myths of the Founders 159 You would
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Myths of the Founders 161 Naphtali
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Myths of the Founders 163 As Jacob
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Myths of the Founders 165 descripti
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yth #66: Jacob awarded the sceptre
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yth #67: Benjamin was born in Canaa
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yth #68: Dan was an Israelite tribe
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yth #69: Jacob gave Joseph a coat o
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yth #70: Joseph’s brothers sold h
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Myths of the Founders 177 This port
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Myths of the Founders 179 The Herod
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Myths of the Founders 181 After Jos
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Myths of the Founders 183 dead had
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yths of the Heroes AN OVERVIEW omet
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Myths of the Heroes 189 course of t
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Myths of the Heroes 191 Solomon imp
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yth #72: Egypt enslaved Israel for
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Myths of the Heroes 197 Reducing Go
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yth #73: Jochebed placed the infant
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Myths of the Heroes 201 These two E
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Myths of the Heroes 203 of the prec
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yth #75: God sent ten plagues again
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Myths of the Heroes 207 Bible: And
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Myths of the Heroes 209 that the Is
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Myths of the Heroes 211 fallen ones
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Myths of the Heroes 213 bols to cha
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yth #78: Moses gave Israel the Ten
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Myths of the Heroes 217 The Book of
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Myths of the Heroes 221 are the Ten
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yth #81: God denied Moses entry int
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yth #82: Joshua parted the Jordan.
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yth #84: Rahab aided the Israelite
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yth #85: Joshua ruined Ai. The Myth
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yth #86: The sun stood still upon G
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Myths of the Heroes 247 the sun was
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Myths of the Heroes 255 ents wouldn
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Myths of the Heroes 257 Israel enjo
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yth #93: Samson judged Israel for t
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Myths of the Heroes 267 The identit
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yth #94: Samson pulled down a Phili
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yth #95: Micah stole silver from hi
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Myths of the Heroes 279 Since the B
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Myths of the Heroes 283 The present
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yth #99: Solomon did not impose for
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yth #100: Daniel predicted the futu
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Suggested Reading The suggested ref
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Suggested Reading 303 The only subs
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Table of Maps World of the Patriarc
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Table of Maps 307 Distribution of t
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1 Chronicles, Book of, xxii 1 Kings
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Index 311 Chaeremon, 200 cherubim,
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Index 313 and Eve, 58; lifestyle in
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Index 315 Potipher's wife, 180-83;
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Index 317 Osiris, 4, 9, 21, 23, 44,
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