Should we literally take the stories of creation?

What purpose does the stories of creation serve at birth? Were they the myths of the Bible? Here is the picture Eden’s garden with the fall of man (C. 1617) Through the Flemish Painters Peter Paul Robbins and John Broguel The Elder.

Was the stories of created at birth literally taken?

Perhaps not, Bible scholar Shuna Dolnsky said in his Bible’s column “Many truths of fiction” In the issue of January/February 2016 Bible archeology reviews.

Our world is very different from the world in which Bible authors lived 2,000 years ago. The ancient world did not have Google, Wikipedia and Smartphones – information about human history and scientific achievements was accessed for thousands of years on their fingertips.

Many scholars believe that there were stories of created in ancient Israelis that were told and were re -presented. These stories eventually reached the Bible’s authors, who wrote them in birth and other Bible books. Birth stories were atological, says Shuna Dolnsky and other Bible scholars.¹ That is, the stories of creation at birth give answers as to why the world was like why people wear clothes and why women suffer during women’s birth.

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Birth stories were included in many myths that were told in ancient east. Dolnsky writes, today we can think of fiction as beliefs that are not true, but as a literary genre, myths “are stories that present and reinforce aspects of the global theory of culture: many truths,” Dolnsky writes. So to say something a pious – in that sense – it is not necessary that this is not true.

Scholars argue that Bible myths were born in the context of other ancient Eastern myths that tried to explain the creation of the world. Along with the myths of the Bible, there were myths of mesopotamine, depending on the account, the creator was Anil, Mummy or Marduk. In ancient Egyptian myths, the creator of the world was beaten in the story of a creation and another.

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“Like other ancient people, the Israelites also told many stories of created stories.” “The Bible provides us with three (and who knows how many others were re -lost but not saved?). Birth is different from 2-3, and both point to another place in the Bible, which is a fiction of the early war between God, and because of this, Liavitan (Zalmun 74). As its nearest analog, God Marduk has defeated the water in the form of dragon timids and recycled his body to make the earth.

What are the other ways of parallel Bible of Eastern myths? What can we know about the world in which ancient Israelis lived through stories of creation at birth? Get more information by reading the Bible’s full -view column “Many truths of fiction” By Shuna Dolnsky in the January/February 2016 issue Repetitive.

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. For example, see Zuni Zuvot, “Was Eve made of Adam’s rib – or her backlome?” RepetitiveSeptember/October 2015; Mary John Win Lith, “Reviews: Restore the Iranian,” RepetitiveMay/June 2014.

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