Friday, October 7, 2022

Noah as a New Adam

 The following table comes from

 

Matthew H. Emadi, The Royal Priest: Psalm 110 in Biblical Theology (New Studies in Biblical Theology 60; London: Apollos, 2022), 39

 

Correspondences between the creation narrative and flood narrative

 

Correspondences

Creation narrative

Flood narrative

The spirit (rûa) is active over the waters

Gen. 1:2

Gen. 8:1b-2

Boundaries between sky and earth

Gen. 1:6-8

Gen. 8:2b

Separation of dry ground from waters

Gen. 1:9

Gen. 8:3-5

Birds, animals and creeping things that swarm the earth

Gen. 1:20-25

Gen. 8:17-19

Days and seasons established

Gen. 1:14-18

Gen. 8:22

Humans and animals must be ‘fruitful and multiply’

Gen. 1:22, 28

Gen. 8:17; 9:1, 7

Dominion theme

Gen. 1:28

Gen. 9:2

God provides food (‘every green plant’)

Gen. 1:29-30

Gen. 9:3

Image of God

Gen. 1:26-28

Gen. 9:6