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Creation Story 2

The Treehouse: Conversations about God

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Rebecca Gummere
Feb 18, 2024
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Okay, strap in for a longer than usual Treehouse post because of all the footnotes and rabbit holes.

Here we go with the beginning of the second Creation story. Both Creation stories are believed by many to have come from ancient oral traditions, stories passed down from generation to generation. (“Grandpa, tell me again how everything was made?”) This Genesis 2 version is likely older by several centuries from the Genesis 1 Creation story. Numerous scholars trace it to an oral tradition as far back as the 10th century B.C.E.1

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