Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Herman Meester <crazymulgogi AT gmail.com>]

Karl,
A discussion about whether the Enuma Elish has exerted any influence
upon the Genesis creation story will probably run out of control very
soon. At least, if we all fail to suppress our personal kerygmatic
convictions.
All I would like to ask is: imagine certain literary elements from
outside Israelite circles had inspired the authors of Tanach, would it
really be so horrific? I can't see why G"d would have given the art of
composing great stories, such as are there in Tanach, only to Moses,
or only to Israelites.
regards
herman


2005/11/23, Karl Randolph <kwrandolph AT email.com>:
> Uri:
>
> This is a good reason that history is off limits for this group.
>
> Let it suffice to say that there is no documentation that
> says that Genesis was influenced from the Akkadian
> creation myth. It is just as likely that Moses got ahold of
> older documents that he used for Genesis, or that Genesis
> was independently influenced by other, common sources,
> as the Akkadian myth as the influence. I accept only one
> of the three (you probably already know which one) but it
> is irrelevant when we lack documentation to tell which
> actually happened.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.