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Originally Posted by Versus
Are you really comparing that to religious studies?
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No. I don't claim to know the motivations behind the Hebrews or Muslims or Christians, or what drove them to the practice of monotheism. I don't study religion. I read the old testament as mostly mythology, not religion. By reading the old testament in this way, and by being familiar with Mesopotamian mythologies, I'm capable of seeing parallels between the two. Parallels that disprove the notion that the majority of the book of Genesis was based on original ideas. It wasn't. I'm sure parts of it were, but too much of it is virtually a rewrite of much older Mesopotamian myth, from Marduk to Adam, to the serpent in the tree to the lady of the rib, to Enlil and Ninlil and the South Wind. Some figures get merged together while others get pulled into 2 or more. It's all mythology based on older mythology.