Narrativa da criação do Gênesis
Gênesis 1 é notável por sua elaborada estrutura interna. Em particular, há um quiasma no texto (isto é, A-B-A '), que o teólogo James B. Jordan, diretor do Biblical Horizons Ministries em Niceville, Flórida, descreve como "uma bela sinfonia 'polifônica' de melodias que se harmonizam perfeitamente entre si." O principal quiasmo claramente discernível na narrativa é um "padrão ... da palavra real, obra e selo" e é descrito da seguinte forma:
A Let there be light (quantum strangeness, molecules, apparent paradox)
B Let there be an expansion... (Space unfilled - no covenantal ‘seal’ of goodness mentioned)
C Let the waters under the expansion be gathered... (Three earth-spheres, hydro- litho- and atmo-)
D Let the earth vegetate with vegetation... (Two 0D-dynamic kinds - seed bearing and fruit bearing)
E Let there be light-bearers in the expansion... (Space complete, luminaries established)
D1 Let the waters swarm forth swarms (Two 3D-dynamic kinds systematized - swimming and flying)
C1 Let the earth swarm forth swarms (Three 2D-dynamic kinds systematized - beasts, 'behema' and creeping things)
B1 Let us make Man in our image (Man, no works mandate - no covenantal ‘seal’ of goodness mentioned)
A1 Observe, I have given you (Covenantal works mandate given, apparent paradox)
The central 'pivot' of the narrative which is 'E' contains a chiasmus within a chiasmus as so:
A to separate
B to be signs
C to give light on the earth
D to govern
C1 to give light on the earth
B1 to govern
A1 to separate
This is significant because the structure of the narrative as a whole points towards the mystery of the Holy Trinity, the God of the Covenant, in its form. A symmetric nested structure can also be found in fractal geometry and the mathematical self-similarity which occurs throughout the created world. As such, the whole creation may be understood as a pale (and now corrupted) mirror image of God Himself (c.f. Romans 1:20)
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