Posted on 04/08/2010 8:15:01 PM PDT by truthfinder9
Somebody just discovered the Epic of Gilgamesh??
They do it every sememster in Comparative Religion 101
I read it as an undergraduate myself.
:’) It’s not fair (or sensible) IMHO to claim that, of all the dozens of Flood stories, ONLY that of the Bible was “stolen” from someone else. But that’s how some people are.
There’s a phony story (simple to find on the various Jew-bashing and pro-Holocaust websites) that Moses in the bullrushes was lifted verbatim from Sargon of Agade, who was indeed earlier — but the fact is that the text so often quoted (or misquoted) is some six or seven hundred years more recent than Moses, IOW, if borrowing went on, it was from the Jews to the Assyrians. :’)
YECism “word of God?” Interstesting that you follow that claim with something no where to be found in the Bible, namely “Noah and Shem, and handed down in the form of cunieform tablets.”
There are a number of things that are not directly stated in the Bible that we hold to be true. The authorship issue is derived from the use of the word toledoth 11 times in the Book of Genesis. It is not settled doctrine, but there are strong implications that it is true.
(Hi Mom!)
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