Table 1.3 Literary Sources of the Primeval Story

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Table 1.3 Literary Sources of the Primeval Story

Genesis 1-11	Yahwist (J)	Priestly (P)
1:1-2:4a		World creation
2:4b-25	Creation of humanity
3:1-24	Garden of Eden
4:1-16	Cain and Abel
4:17-26	Cain's generations
5		Adam's genealogy
6:1-4	Sons of God
6:5-8	Reason for flood-1
6:9-13		Reason for flood-2
6:14-7:24	Flood (J + P)	Flood (J + P)
8	Re-Creation (J + P)	Re-Creation (J + P)
9:1-17		God's covenant with Noah
9:18-27	Noah's insobriety
10	Table of Nations (J + P)	Table of Nations (J + P)
11:1-9	Tower of Babel
11:10-26		Shem's genealogy
11:27-32		Terah's genealogy

For the full literary sources of the Primeval Story see Table 1.M. For the literary sources of the Ancestral Story see Table 2.D Literary Sources of Genesis 12-50.

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