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0043 Hoffmeier mentions a pattern, discerned by David Clines, of sin, divine speech, mitigation and punishment.  This pattern is encapsulated in the Story of the Fall.  The pattern repeats over and over in Gen 1-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I naturalize this pattern as failure<\/em>, reorientation<\/em>, paradigm implementation<\/em> and coping with contradictions inherent in established paradigm<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This describes a cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does this cycle last for four generations of four generations (that is, around 400 years)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0044 If so, then here is my guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within each cycle, one genre predominates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can call each cycle a genre<\/em> or a denkstyle<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0045 If this guess makes sense, then there may be nine genres in Gen 1-11, corresponding to nine cycles from the start of the Ubaid to the end of Ur III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0046 There are three cycles between the start of Ubaid and its first expansion into northern Mesopotamia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One cycle to the start of the Uruk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two cycles to right before the Sumerian Dynastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, three cycles to the twilight of Ur III, when the Sumerian language is no longer spoken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

0043 Hoffmeier mentions a pattern, discerned by David Clines, of sin, divine speech, mitigation and punishment.  This pattern is encapsulated in the Story of the Fall.  The pattern repeats over and over in Gen 1-11. I naturalize this pattern as failure, reorientation, paradigm implementation and coping with contradictions inherent in established paradigm. This describes a cycle. 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