Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>]

>> >One thing I find fascinating is the way some folks want to 
>> >say that the Genesis account is based on mythology similar to 
>> >Enuma Elish, tie in the word Tiamat and all the rest, while 
>> >simultaneously claiming elsewhere that it wasn't even written until 
>> >the second century B.C., several hundred years (at least!) after 
>> >Enuma Elish and the other stuff had passed off the scene!  
>> 
>> Duh. Berossus is well aware of the Enuma Elish in the 2nd 
>> century BCE.
>> 
>Reference, please?  I'll comment further after that.

Try:

Stanley M. Burstein, The Babyloniaca of Berossus, Malibu (Undena 
  Publications), 1978, pp. 14-5.

Alexander Heidel, The Babylonian Genesis: The Story of Creation (Genesis), 
  Phoenix Books, 1963,  pp. 78-81

This last also deals with the Neoplatonic writer Damascius of 
the 5th century who cites Enuma Elish.


Ian