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The Literary Structure of the Old Testament: A Commentary on Genesis–Malachi is unavailable, but you can change that!

In modern writing, a variety of written markers—italics, bold type, punctuation, parentheses, and so forth—are used to indicate emphasis and clarify meaning. The authors of the Old Testament could not rely on such devices since their writings were originally composed for oral presentation. They instead used literary structure to highlight certain ideas and to convey meaning and emphasis...

6.9 Arrangement of the seven main units of Genesis 1–11 a creation: God creates the world and humankind—a beginning (1:1–2:3) • dry land appears out of the watery chaos • animals: every living thing, birds, every animal that creeps (remeś) on the ground; male and female (zākār ûnĕqēbâ); after their kind (lĕmînâ) • divine blessing on animals: “be fruitful and multiply upon the earth” • Yahweh blesses the first people: “be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth” • instructions regarding food that humans
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