Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Jonathan Safren wrote: "...As for singling out Enuma Elish for polemic, 
this may have been the literary polytheistic creation narrative best 
known to the Priestly writer."

I can't help wondering: As for singling out Enuma Elish for discussion 
here, this may simply be the literary polytheistic creation narrative 
best known to modern scholars. Perhaps there was another work, now lost 
(or how about the Assyrian fragments someone recently referred to?), 
which was even more closely related to Genesis. This is my reply to 
whoever originally wrote: "There can be little doubt that Genesis is 
written - in part - as a response to the Enuma Elish."

Peter Kirk