A fascinating comparison of these two texts, which might remind the reader of Erich Auerbach's contrast between Hebrew scripture and Homeric narration in his Mimesis. But your reflections on the primal chaos take us to a different place!
I love Auerbach’s critical tools—Homer’s “of the foreground” and Genesis’s “fraught background.” With such tools, one can go anywhere! Without them, one is reduced, as I am, to footnotes. :-)
A fascinating comparison of these two texts, which might remind the reader of Erich Auerbach's contrast between Hebrew scripture and Homeric narration in his Mimesis. But your reflections on the primal chaos take us to a different place!
I love Auerbach’s critical tools—Homer’s “of the foreground” and Genesis’s “fraught background.” With such tools, one can go anywhere! Without them, one is reduced, as I am, to footnotes. :-)