steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
Caught part of NOVA today.
Jews are said to be Babylonians captives, but that is misleading. They assimilated into the culture and economically did well. Jewish scribes had time to write.
One thing that came up was that the Sargon myth has him being cast into river in a basket of rushes. Turns out the Moses story of being cast into river was common in different myths.
The Jewish scribes would have spoken and read Babylonians. They were immersed in the stories of the culture.
What I got was a picture of Jewish people without a homeland fabricated a mythology that includes an origins or creation myth as all cultures had.
It was also proposed that the ziggerat in Babylon was the basis of the Babel story. It would be interesting to trace the origin of the word Babel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargon_of_Akkad#Origin_legends
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat
It looks like the entire Christian mythology clearly traces back as a derivative of several colures adapted by the Jews.
Jews are said to be Babylonians captives, but that is misleading. They assimilated into the culture and economically did well. Jewish scribes had time to write.
One thing that came up was that the Sargon myth has him being cast into river in a basket of rushes. Turns out the Moses story of being cast into river was common in different myths.
The Jewish scribes would have spoken and read Babylonians. They were immersed in the stories of the culture.
What I got was a picture of Jewish people without a homeland fabricated a mythology that includes an origins or creation myth as all cultures had.
It was also proposed that the ziggerat in Babylon was the basis of the Babel story. It would be interesting to trace the origin of the word Babel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargon_of_Akkad#Origin_legends
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat
It looks like the entire Christian mythology clearly traces back as a derivative of several colures adapted by the Jews.