Six Day Creation Story Analysis

The Six Day Creation Story All Ancient cultures have a creation story and those stories become the center of their rituals, politics, and cultural identity. The same is no different for Genesis 1 and 2. Both were put down into writing during the Israelites time of Babylonian Captivity and exile. During this time to set the identity of Israelites and declare their independence, the stories actively take on ideas that go against the pagan creation myths, but also have some influence from them. Due to all the cultural influences on the Israelites; there are interpretative issues that occur from those that do not have the cultural background, and when one understands the cultural influences the creation stories gain a new meaning. To discuss this Genesis 1 will be the main focus. In

Adam means humanity and is not a reference towards gender identity of the first humans (Collegeville). Which can be problematic sense some may see Adam as just man and not women. A similar problem has occurred within the translations in reference to God’s wind that disturbs the water of the void. It has been translated as wind from God, but when looking at the Hebrew translation it is translated into wind of God (Collegeville). This switching of words causes a new meaning to arise that takes away the power of the wind, which has been used to write about God when God comes into contact with a prophet.
The structure of the story also provides meaning into the creation myth and reveals the cultural background. The use of Rhythm and repetition gives off a human aspect and makes the story easy to read (Collegeville). In addition, the rhythm and repetition are remnants of the oral telling of said story and lead to a structural pattern. The Structural pattern shows the thought and organization that went into the planning of creation (Collegeville). Everything created was created by God for a reason and God found his creation stats