I highly recommend Professor Ronald Hendel’s article titled “Genesis 1-11 And Its Mesopotamian Problem,” a PDF document available on the internet at the following url
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Hendel understands that Genesis 1-11 was written in response to and in refutation of earlier Mesopotamian accounts of Man’s Origins, and the Nature of God.
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I highly recommend Professor Ronald Hendel’s article titled “Genesis 1-11 And Its Mesopotamian Problem,” a PDF document available on the internet at the following url** you do not have permission to see this link **
Hendel understands that Genesis 1-11 was written in response to and in refutation of earlier Mesopotamian accounts of Man’s Origins, and the Nature of God.
So now we can approach in what context this answer to ANE mythology is made. Is it a response made after the writings of Berrossus and Manetho near 300 BCE provide consolidated materials, or did the unattested schools of Iron age Israel and Judah produce Genesis 1-11 to answer to various mythologies from various places?
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