volume 16, issue 2, 2024, pages 159-194

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsAPBE9427
Published online: 2024-12-01
Published in print: 2024-12-30

Abstract: Some authors such as Corinne Bonnet and Sofia Cavalletti already noted analogies between the drunkenness of Noah in Gen 9:18-29 or of Adonai in Ps 78 with some uses of it in the extra-biblical literature. Following this line of thought, I intend to investigate what appears to be a literary motif of drunkenness of a main parental or divine figure, by highlighting its elements and its purpose in general, as well as the specific orientation chosen by Gen 9:1829 within the framework of the section Gen 9:18–10:32. That is, to guide in the early phase of Gen 1–11 the favor of the Abrahamic branch on Canaan, regarding the land of the Canaanites’ original dispersion in Gen 10:19.