(March 15, 2018 at 12:31 pm)Aegon Wrote:(March 15, 2018 at 11:09 am)Huggy74 Wrote: So basically what you're saying is that a Monotheistic religion that strictly prohibits the worship of Idols is derived from a Polytheistic pantheon of over 40 different gods, and not the other way around? And that Gilgamesh can in no way be derived from story of Noah?
Like I said, present your evidence.
Yes? Lol. It's an historical fact that Judaism and the stories that made it are younger than all of those mythologies, by over one thousand years. Gilgamesh was written between 2000 and 2100 BC, while the earliest estimate of when the Torah was written is around 1300 BC. Akkadian mythology ripped off the ones before it too. The Ras Shamra tablets are dated 6000 BC, and Ugaritic and Hebrew share very similar language and literary forms. That's how these stories work. And the Abrahamic religions are no different.
To be honest it feels bizarre to me to have to argue this. Any historian (or even undergraduate history student) studying near eastern history or ancient studies has seen how the earlier mythologies were a major source of the material in Jewish mythology. If you don't believe me, we live in the age of information, use Google Scholar or something. I wouldn't tell you to do this if there wouldn't be results. But I am operating off of what I remember for the several month period I learned about these things. And I ain't got time to try to convince you of anything, it doesn't really impact me. I just HAD to point out the irony of you accepting their influence on Nordic religion but not your own.
Must I remind you that the book of Job predates the Torah? Job was not a Jew.
