The Creation and Flood Stories: An Introductory Aid to Understanding Source and Redaction Criticism

If the Pentateuch was built from multiple sources as many scholars believe, what might these sources have looked like?

In this booklet, Henry Neufeld takes a look at the text of Genesis 1-2 (the creation stories) and Genesis 6-9 (the flood stories) to see how the various sources might have looked. This is not intended as a new scholarly proposal, but rather a summary and example based on existing scholarship. It should help readers who have not done a detailed study of critical methodologies understand what the issues are and how they impact our reading of the text.

This book is not intended to stand alone. It can be a supplement either to the author's volume God the Creator in the Topical Line Drives series, or can accompany a study of biblical sources and biblical criticism from other volumes, such as those listed in the Resources section. It makes use of and references biblical Hebrew, but can be read by someone without a knowledge of that language.

Join in an examination of the pre-history of the text and dig more deeply in the scriptures as we have them today.

Henry E. Neufeld is editor of the Participatory Study Series from Energion Publications and author of God the Creator, When People Speak for God, and Learning and Living Scripture, amongst others. He specializes in bringing biblical scholarship to people outside of academia. He has his BA in Biblical Languages from Walla Walla University and his MA in Religion, concentrating in Biblical and Cognate Languages from Andrews University. He lives near Pensacola, Florida with his wife Jody. They have three children and nine grandchildren.