The Breakfast Club (Torey, Nick, Palmer, RIP Gardner) Speiser, Sarna, Niditch CONT.

Today in our group discussion we talked about what Niditch’s goal was in her article on Genesis 2-3. We decided that her goal was to explain how humanity/civilization has gotten to where it is today. She avoided theological questions like what God’s intentions were, because they are simply impossible to answer. In Sarna’s reading, we discussed how Genesis 1 is tied together with 2-3, and how the second story cannot stand alone without Genesis 1. We also talked about why according to Sarna, Genesis 2-3 is not another creation story. Finally, we discussed Speiser’s emphasis on the point of the change in text from “heaven and earth” to “earth and heaven” in Genesis 1 vs. 2-3.