Sunday, October 26, 2014
Some Edits
I made some edits around the story of Noach. The story of the city of Bavel is moved up, to right after the city-building is first mentioned. The reasoning is that it was moved out of that position because of the story of the Mabul. After the story of Bavel, is the story of the Gibborim. Noach is not mentioned until after this, suggesting that he was a Gibbor, a man of name. Noach is hence not a son of Lamech - the two lived many generations apart - and he has, not three, but four sons, which is clearly the original story. Why P insisted on three sons? Likely, P wanted to make a theme. Because Adam, in P's view, had three sons, and Terach, in P's view, had three sons.