Phantasmal (03-18-2019)
Phantasmal (03-18-2019)
Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text ...
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1 When the heavens above did not exist, 2 And earth beneath had not come into being — 3 There …
1 Tia-mat gathered together her creation. 2 And organised battle against the gods, her offspring. 3 …
1 Anšar opened his mouth. 2 And addressed Kaka, his vizier, 3 "Vizier Kaka, who gratifies my …
1 They set a lordly dais for him. 2 And he took his seat before his fathers to receive kingship. 3 …
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The Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Creation Myth - CRI/Voice
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The Enuma Elish is a Babylonian or Mesopotamian myth of creation recounting the struggle between cosmic order and chaos. It is basically a myth of the cycle of seasons. It is named after its opening words and was recited on the fourth day of the ancient Babylonian New Year's festival. The basic story exists in various forms in the area.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
Phantasmal (03-18-2019)
Genesis 1 and a Babylonian Creation Story
In the middle of the nineteenth century, archaeologists were digging in the library of King Ashurbanipal (668-627 B.C.) in the ancient city of Nineveh. They discovered thousands of clay tablets written in a language that came to be known as Akkadian (a distant and much older cousin to Hebrew).
These tablets contained things like laws, administrative matters, and literature. It was like unearthing a time capsule to see what life was like in the ancient Near East 3,000 to 4,000 years ago.
But it was the religious texts found there that got the most attention. One of those texts bore striking similarities to Genesis 1.
How people viewed Genesis would never be the same again.
Found among the ruins was a Babylonian creation story referred to today as Enuma Elish. It is a story about a highly dysfunctional divine family engaged in a major power struggle at the dawn of time. The heart of the story is where the god Marduk kills his nemesis Tiamat and then fillets her body in two, making the sky out of one half and the earth out of the other. Thus, Marduk claims the throne as the high god in the pantheon.
Scholars have termed Enuma Elish the “Babylonian Genesis.” The reason is that both stories share some concepts that were immediately apparent.
In both stories, matter exists when creation begins. Similar to Enuma Elish, Genesis 1 describes God ordering chaos, not creating something out of nothing.
Darkness precedes the creative acts.
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https://biologos.org/articles/genesi...creation-story
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
Many times..
There are several versions of the Babylonian creation story.. The Hebrews learned it when they were in exile in Babylon for 70 years.. They used it to write their own creation myth.
Prior to that and the writing of Leviticus and Deuteronomy they had no identity, origin myths or national narrative.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
why can't you find one that has some similarity with the Genesis story......after all, its your claim that the Jews copied the Babylonian story.....I put it to you that it is obvious you are lying since you cannot find a single Babylonian story that sounds ever remotely like anything that is written in Genesis.......doesn't that embarrass you?.......
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