So what we have in the first few chapters of Genesis are two creation stories that have distinctive styles, distinctive themes, distinctive vocabularies and they're placed side by side.

所以在《创世纪》的前几章中，我们有两个不同的故事,风格，主题，用语,都有自己的特色。

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He was long in choosing the subject of his heroic song and, as we know from all of -- and we've encountered a number of them - all of those protestations of delay Milton began his epic late.

他久久未能确定他要写的英雄之歌的主题，这我们从从弥尔顿多次声言,自己的史诗动笔很晚就能看出。

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So, what kind of--I don't want to give everything away-- but what kind of themes do we have in a course like this, what have I forgotten about? Oh me.

所以,什么样的,我想在还不想都说出来,我们这种课都有什么样的主题,我还有什么没说,我自己

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It presses its own themes in retelling those stories. Early laws are subject to reinterpretation. Ezekiel comes along and does some interesting things with some of the legal material that we find in Leviticus. This is all the kind of thing that tradition criticism looks at.

在复述这些故事时它加入了自己的主题，早期的法律,容易遭受重新诠释，《以西结书》在形成过程中,就对我们在《利未记》里看到的法律材料作了一些,有趣的处理，这就是源流批判学探讨的重点。

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