Can someone tell me if there are any creation stories that pre date or coincide with the creation story in?

Question

The Bible- Torah OT? I recall hearing a creation story that was suppose to pre date The Bible but shared similar events to that found in the Bible! I have since forgottenThx!

Answer 1

The creation story in the Epic of Gilgamesh is older. Its not the only one either that is.

Answer 2

The Sumerian tablets that were written before the Old Testament, 6,000 or more years ago. They give the same tale of creation as the Bible does. Also information before the flood. These were discovered in the late 1800s. There are lots of websites with this information, plus many books written about these tablets. Most of them are about the Nefilims, which the Bible calls the sons of god that came down to the daughters of men, which is where the giants were born or created in the land.

Lots of Bible stories found in the tablets. Very fascinating.

Answer 3

The Sumerian Enuma elish - lots of punch ups between the Gods, I can't remember the ending but i think Marduk won. Seriously, the babylonian creation myths all predate genesis, which seems to have been compiled sometime during the fifth century CE, but with some very early elements to it. Genesis basically makes a skit on the many squabbling gods in the Enume elis by parody, ( I like this theory).

Answer 4

The account of Creation in Genesis is only a Jewish allegory to illustrate the origin of Mankind. It can't be interpreted literally.

Answer 5

Every Civilization has it's own creation story, and their are plenty that are older then the Bible.

Answer 6

sure, it probably included the formation of the flat earth.



seriously,the two creation stories in the bible (that contradict each other) were written a thousand years apart.

Answer 7

What you are probably thinking of is the Epic of Gilgamesh for its similarity as well as predating the Torah.



There were certainly many others, but we have copies of this one.

Answer 8

I'd guess every civilization that predates the Jewish one. I know for a fact that the Egyptians, Greeks, Hindus, Chinese, and many others had theirs in place before the Jewish culture appeared.

Answer 9

You should watch the beginning of this movie http://zeitgeistmovie.com/main.htm