THIS MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
The answer
J and P. In the classic analysis, J tells of the LORD, seven pairs of clean animals, and forty days of rain; P of God, two of every kind, a hundred fifty days, and the dates and measurements. E and D sit elsewhere in the Torah — and Q belongs to Gospel scholarship.
Why it’s interesting
Read separately, each strand is a nearly complete flood story — Friedman's book prints them apart so you can try it. The braid is why the finished chapter counts animals twice.
Scholarly consensus
You can know the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.