To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: raqia encore
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 01:58:13 +0200
>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.