Sin’s Earliest Echoes: The Pattern of Sin, Sound, Sentence in Genesis’ Primeval History

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  • Spencer, Chase
    • Affiliation: Honors Carolina
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  • My research (referred to in these summary slides) analyzes the role of sound within the sin narratives of Genesis 1-11 as a case study for the hermeneutical utility of explicit sounds within the text of the Hebrew Bible. First, I establish a pattern of "sin, sound, sentence" in the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and the Tower of Babel. Next, I defend the unique presence of the pattern in the Primeval Narrative. Then, I investigate the pattern's apparent absence in the Biblical Flood account. Ultimately, I propose that the relationship between sin and sound in Genesis 1-11 is best explained by the tension between order and chaos in these passages: with each wrongdoing, a sound symbolizes how sin invites chaos back into an ordered world.
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