Narrative27 min
The Flood: Uncreation, Remembrance, Re-creation
Genesis 7:1-8:14
Eighty-three Hebrew verses chiastically center on a single sentence: va-yizkor Elohim et-Noach (Gen 8:1). The Flood narrative is the canonical first iteration of uncreation-and-recreation — Gen 1's cosmogonic lexicon returns inverted, the judgment-execution verbs run forward into the Red Sea at 34% coverage, and the dove-over-water of Gen 8:8-11 becomes the only canonical pair with Jesus' baptism that 1 Pet 3:21 names as antitype.