And humankind receives its first set of explicit laws, no more implicit, "Murder is bad." "Oh I wish I had known!"

人类要接受明确的律法，而非隐晦的，谋杀是不好的，哦！我要是早知道就好了“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

We're going to read these stories with an eye to Israel's adaptation of Near Eastern motifs and themes to sort of monotheize those motifs and themes and express a new conception of God and the world and humankind.

我们将阅读这些故事，并关注,以色列是怎样把一神论从近东时期的宗教主题中分离出来,并创造出一个关于神、世界和人类的崭新观点的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So it seems that humankind is to be destroyed because they irritate the gods with their tumult and noise.

这似乎是人类被毁灭的愿意,因为人类的噪杂惹怒了众神。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He was known through history, events and a particular relationship with humankind.

而是在历史重大事件及,与人类关系上起很大作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The story is explaining how these odd conditions of life came to be as they are, which is not to say that it's the ideal situation or even that it's God's will for humankind these are etiological fables, and they're best read as such.

这个故事解释了，这些奇怪的生活状态,并不是说，这些便是理想的,甚至是根据上帝旨意的生活状态,而是阐述为什么会这样的原因，这是最好的解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选