Missing sea creatures

Maybe the author didn't intend for man to rule everything in the sea!According to Richard Elliott Friedman in his book "Who Wrote The Bible?", the first chapter of Genesis is considered to be written by the same priestly author that wrote Leviticus. He states that they were probably written after the fall of the northern kingdom.This verse shows that the writer understood that there were various creatures in the water. Now we have the verse in question: Notice we don't have rule over the sea, but we supposedly do over all the earth and all the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air.Since the writer did not give man rule over the sea, he understood that humans couldn't rule where they couldn't survive.Now look at what the writer says God allows the Hebrews to eat. IMO, the priestly author gave man rule over where he felt they could survive and over creatures that were necessary to their survival.

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A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.

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This reminds us that the author of Genesis imagined Earth and Sea as separate realities;

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Do you have any idea when humans realized they were on a planet?I never took the words "earth" and "world" used by the authors of the Bible to refer to an entire planet as we view it today, but instead they refered to land, territories, or cities; known to them.

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A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.

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I like to think the truth was suspected by some even before the Pythagoreans published.

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Realistically, how quickly would it really spread? Even today, with all the media available, there are a lot of scientific breakthroughs that don't make it through to the masses.The duties of the priests didn't really include keeping up on discoveries.Always interesting to think of how the past might have been.Thanks for talking with me.