- 23/11/2012
- Posted by: essay
- Category: Free essays
Bible is the most popular book in the world. For this reason the most of people on the Earth read the Genesis at least once. Even the first reading allows the reader to notice that there are two stories of Genesis in the Bible. Some parts are the same, but some are different. This essay will determine the main differences between two creation myths.
Two Bible myths
First, the personification of the Lord is different in two myths. The name in the first part is God, in the second – the Lord God. Though this difference seems to be insignificant, it is just the first from many. The researches prove that in the original Bible text, written on Hebrew, the name of God was God Elohim. Later it was replaced with tetragrammaton, the word from four letters transcribed as Yahweh. The ancient Jews thought the name of God is too sacred to write it in the text.
The idea of God is different in two myths also. In the first myth the God is just the spirit – “wind from God swept over the face of the waters.” Later in the first myth God appears as a human-like being. In the second myth the Lord God is an integral essence, but its appearance is unknown.
The story of humanity creation differs in both myths. In the first chapter God created “humankind in our image, according to our likeness”. In the second one a man was formed from the dust of ground, “and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
The comparison of two Bible myths allows the supposition that these myths were created by different people in different time.
Reference
Paul Brians, et al. Reading About the World, Vol. 1, 3rd edition, Harcourt Brace College Publishing
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