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Creative Appropriations Creation Texts Commentary: Genesis 1:1-2:4a Images In this representation, duality predominates and creation is essentially a process of demarcation. Light signals God’s action upon absence, and the separation of lights characterizes creation as a continuing work, marking out a distinctive period of time. The account offers a sense of beginning and end, as God enters upon the scene and deems the work finished with a period of rest. Humans are presented as the crown and guide of plant and animal communities that are created before them and also instilled with the ruach (breath, spirit) of life. Humans (man and woman both created in God’s image) are asked by God to “rule” and “subdue” the creation that preceded them. God’s self is expressed in the work of separation and ordering, and in the dualities that are established—man and woman, fruits and plants, above and below, night and day. The account demarcates time and space with ordained and intended taxonomy as an expression of God’s will. Water and darkness signify chaos and negative space upon which God acts, and exist independently of God represented as breath/spirit. God’s primary creative action takes place through imperative speech, and each creative act is sealed with God’s approval and/or blessing. God wills that all created things multiply and increase. Commentary: Genesis 2:4b-3:24 Dryness dominates the earth prior to God’s appearance, and creation is initiated by two distinctive occurrences: the inflowing of water from within the ground, and the shaping of dust into human form instilled with the breath of God. Dry ground is presented as already in existence before God’s creative labor, and the sending out and naming of waters occurs alongside the shaping, placement, and instruction to man. Plant life appears as the necessary precondition of human creation, and animal life is shaped from the material of the earth as companionship and aid to man. When animals are founding lacking as companions, woman is created to support man. The story details the origination of punishment, scarcity, and suffering through a narrative of hubris, disobedience and deceit. All parties to the decision to eat from the tree of life are given punishment, suggesting the origins of particular physical sufferings, futility, want, and distance from God. The narrative concludes with the sealing of the Garden of Eden as God’s territory alone, guarding against human consumption of knowledge alike to the wisdom of God. Life post-Eden is characterized by labor for the sake of survival, and the promise of abundance is closed off in Eden. It is questionable in translation whether God covers Adam and Eve with clothing or with skin as they are banished from the garden. In this image, I choose to see them as un-bodied prior to the banishment, so that the departure signals the taking on the burden of flesh. Commentary: ANE Narrative and Genesis Comparison (Becoming Human) In the entire Genesis creation account, the experience of humanness is divorced from sexuality and sensuality, except in the most schematic and conceptual ways. Humans are expressions of divine thought and intention, shaped by convenience in the account of Eden out of the material of the earth, but coming upon sensual experience only through the necessity of sustenance or the fulfillment of the commandment to multiply. Human agency, likewise, is contingent upon God’s demand, and the desires and motivations of human agents are represented only in the fall from grace and departure from the garden (and essentially as its cause). I selected the Stories of Gilgamesh as a point of comparison because of its supposed parallel to the story of Adam and Eve. But in the Stories of Gilgamesh, there is a dramatic dance of human and divine agency, where divine forces lure Enkidu into humanness through the sexuality of a divine envoy. The process takes time, requiring a prolonged exploration of sensuality. The intent is to draw him away from his initial state of animal existence, and into the full experience of human pleasure: food, drink, intimacy and physical
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