hence v.7 presupposes v.10. The same order of events is
found in P (11. 13) and in the Babylonian legend: "when the
lords of the darkness send at evening a (grimy?) rain, enter
into the ship and close thy door" (l. 88 f.).—16b (which must
in any case follow immediately on v.7) contains a fine anthropomorphism,
which (in spite of the Bab. parallel just cited)
it is a pity to spoil by deleting (
Hebrew characters) and making Noah the
implicit subject (Klost. NKZ, i. 717).—12. forty days and forty nights] This determination, which in J expresses the
entire duration of the Flood, seems to have been treated by
R as merely a stage in the increase of the waters (cf. 86).
It obviously breaks the connexion of P. The Babylonian
deluge lasted only six days and nights (l. 128).—17b. Parallel
to 18 (P).—22, 23. A singularly effective description of the
the words either replace (Hebrew characters) (as v.1), or are a pure insertion;—in
either case redactional.—(Hebrew characters)] so 710 (J), 911 (P) (ct. (Hebrew characters), 617 76).—(Hebrew characters)]
G (Greek characters); V diluvium; S and TO (Hebrew characters) (TJ (Hebrew characters)). The word
has usually been derived from (Hebrew characters), 'streaming' (see Ges. Th., Di.); but
is more probably a foreign word without Heb. etymology (see Nö.
ZDMG, xl. 732). Del. (Parad. 156) proposed the derivation from Ass.
nabâlu, 'destroy,' which is accepted by König (ii. 153), Ball (p. 53), and
others. The Bab. technical equivalent is abûbu, which denotes both a
'light-flood' and a 'water-flood': the double sense has been thought
to explain P's addition of (Hebrew characters) to the word (see on 617). A transformation
of the one name into the other is, however, difficult to understand (see
KAT3, 4951, 5462). In Ps. 2910 (Hebrew characters) appears to be used in a general
sense without a historic reference to the Noachic Deluge (see Duhm,
ad loc.).—8, 9 present a mixed text. The distinction of clean and unclean
points to J; but all other features ((Hebrew characters) [though a reading (Hebrew characters)
seems attested by [E]VTJ, and MSS of G]; (Hebrew characters); the undiscriminated
(Hebrew characters); the categorical enumeration [to which G adds the birds
at the beginning of v.8]) to P. In P the vv. are not wanted, because
they are a duplicate of 13-16: they must therefore be assigned to an
interpolator (Bu. al.).—10. On the construction of the sentence, see
G-K. § 164 a, and on v.6 below.—12. (Hebrew characters)] ([root] ǧasuma = 'be massive')
commonly used of the heavy winter rain (Ezr. 109, Ca. 211): see GASm.
HG, 64.—16b. (Hebrew characters)] G (Greek characters) + (Greek characters).—17b. Since 18 belongs
to P ((Hebrew characters), (Hebrew characters)), its duplicate 17b must be from J, where it forms a natural
continuation of 12. 17a, on the other hand (in spite of the 40 days), must be
assigned to P (see p. 164).—22. (Hebrew characters)] is an unexampled combination,
arising from confusion of a phrase of J ((Hebrew characters), 27) with one of P
((Hebrew characters), 617 715). The v. being from J (cf. (Hebrew characters) instead of (Hebrew characters); (Hebrew characters) instead
of (Hebrew characters), 21), (Hebrew characters) is naturally the word to be deleted.—23a as a whole is J
((Hebrew characters), (Hebrew characters)); but the clause (Hebrew characters) . . . (Hebrew characters) seems again (cf. 67)
