Almost like the Bible may have taken inspiration from this and other known stories in the area
Inocent_bystander on
The resurection story is also “borrowed” from the “Song of Inanna”
Archaon0103 on
It’s they were all myth and religions that came out from the same area or something.
RandolphCarter15 on
I don’t know why the response is always that the Bible “stole” this. This isn’t some new discovery
First, Genesis was a set of oral traditions eventually written down. They may be the same age.
Second, just about everyone has a flood myth. Genesis is actually more similar to the Greek myth than Sumerian. In the latter the gods thought humans were too noisy, it wasn’t morality.
Isn’t it more likely these myths are similar because they mean something? Even if you don’t believe in a literal flood, it represents something archetypal to humanity. Just like the various resurrection myths aren’t all connected, they tell us something about how we approach our relationship to the world
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Almost like the Bible may have taken inspiration from this and other known stories in the area
The resurection story is also “borrowed” from the “Song of Inanna”
It’s they were all myth and religions that came out from the same area or something.
I don’t know why the response is always that the Bible “stole” this. This isn’t some new discovery
First, Genesis was a set of oral traditions eventually written down. They may be the same age.
Second, just about everyone has a flood myth. Genesis is actually more similar to the Greek myth than Sumerian. In the latter the gods thought humans were too noisy, it wasn’t morality.
Isn’t it more likely these myths are similar because they mean something? Even if you don’t believe in a literal flood, it represents something archetypal to humanity. Just like the various resurrection myths aren’t all connected, they tell us something about how we approach our relationship to the world