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I haven't read that one yet but I have read others.
"The Babylonian origin of the biblical story of the Flood (Genesis 6–10) is well known since George Smith (in 1872) identified the Babyloniannarration of the deluge in a tablet from Ashurbanipal’s library. In spite of the clumsy and ignorant opposition of more conservative circles who considered that both stories (and others) could be dated back, via a ‘memory’ stretching over millennia, to a real event of geological times, here we havea clear case of literary transmission. The parallels between the biblicalstory and Babylonian versions of the myth preserved in the Atrahasis and
Gilgamesh epics, are too numerous and precise. The very resting of theark ‘on the mountains of Urartu [Ararat]’ (Gen. 8.4) not only reveals the Babylonian origin of the biblical narration, but also places its transmissionin the Neo-Babylonian age." Pg. 234 Israel's History and the History of Israel - Mario Liverani
The creation story is a copy of the Babylonian Enuma Elish. Look, the order is the same!
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Comparing the Genesis and Babylonian stories of creation
"The Babylonian origin of the biblical story of the Flood (Genesis 6–10) is well known since George Smith (in 1872) identified the Babyloniannarration of the deluge in a tablet from Ashurbanipal’s library. In spite of the clumsy and ignorant opposition of more conservative circles who considered that both stories (and others) could be dated back, via a ‘memory’ stretching over millennia, to a real event of geological times, here we havea clear case of literary transmission. The parallels between the biblicalstory and Babylonian versions of the myth preserved in the Atrahasis and
Gilgamesh epics, are too numerous and precise. The very resting of theark ‘on the mountains of Urartu [Ararat]’ (Gen. 8.4) not only reveals the Babylonian origin of the biblical narration, but also places its transmissionin the Neo-Babylonian age." Pg. 234 Israel's History and the History of Israel - Mario Liverani
The creation story is a copy of the Babylonian Enuma Elish. Look, the order is the same!
View attachment 88714
Comparing the Genesis and Babylonian stories of creation