By Carol M. Kaminski
The primaeval blessing, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth,' first introduced to humankind in Genesis 1.28 is renewed to Noah and his sons after the flood in Genesis 9.1. there's common scholarly consensus that the resultant dispersion in Genesis 10.1-32 and 11.1-9 is the ability through which the construction blessing is fulfilled. Kaminski argues that the primeval blessing isn't really fulfilled within the desk of countries and that Yahweh's scattering Noah's descendants within the Babel tale doesn't give a contribution definitely to the construction subject matter. particularly, the production blessing is being taken up within the fundamental line of Shem (Genesis 11.10-26), which leads on to Abraham. She additional means that divine grace isn't absent after the Babel judgment, as is often assumed, yet is at paintings within the Shemite family tree. She argues that the primeval blessing, that is unfulfilled within the primaeval historical past, is taken up through Abraham and his descendants by way of a divine promise. whereas the blessing is within the means of being realised within the patriarchal narratives, it isn't fulfilled. The multiplication subject is resumed, even though, in Exodus 1.7, which describes Israel's proliferation in Egypt. this can be the 1st indication that the production blessing is fulfilled. Realisation of the primaeval blessing progresses after the flood, consequently, from Noah to Israel. but God's blessing on Israel isn't for his or her sake by myself - it's the capability in which the divine goal for construction can be restored to the area. JSOTS413
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3 Scholars observe that this view was first espoused by Josephus,4 who writes that God had commanded the Babelites to colonize so that the people might not quarrel with each other, but cultivate the earth. According to Josephus, the people refused to obey, thinking that God was plotting against them. 6 Thus according to Josephus, Nimrod did not build the tower in defiance of the primaeval commands, but as an act of revenge against God for the destruction of his forefathers. More recent scholars argue, however, that the city and tower were built in defiance of God's command to 'fill the earth' (Gen.
12). Egypt would thus be 'uninhabited' for forty years (Ezek. 11). Since scattering seems to result in populations being depleted rather than increasing, are we to assume that the injunction to 'be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth' will be fulfilled through YHWH's scattering the Babelites? 61 Even Jacob acknowledges that when people are scattered among nations, this usually leads to their decreasing in number and even to their perishing - although he argues that this type of scattering is not in view in Gen.
163. 60. Head, 'Covenant Reversal', pp. 218-26 (220-21). e. a remnant). M. Wolf, 'The Transcendent Nature of Covenant Curse 40 From Noah to Israel in number, is it likely that the scattering of Noah's descendants would fulfil the primaeval blessing? A decrease in population through scattering is also suggested in Isaiah 24. In this context, YHWH announces his judgment on the nations: 'Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants...