Seeing This Is So

Saturday, September 25, 2021

College students who major in history are sometimes required to purchase a copy of the book, “Ancient Near Eastern Texts” (often cited as “ANET”). This is an anthology or collection of writings from civilizations in the Middle East from the Mesopotamian region circa (around) 2000 B.C. through the heydays of the Egyptian empire, circa 1300 B.C. to the end of the fourth millennium B.C., just before the incarnation of God in Christ. The text can also be helpful when comparing religious beliefs of the nations and kingdoms up to and including the Roman and the Muslim empires. It can be used in comparing different cultures’ records of universal events, such as claiming that the date of the writing of the “Epic of Gilgamesh” which presents the Flood narrative through the pagan lenses (any religion outside of Biblical Christianity). The Sumerian “Gilgamesh” presents a culture of polytheism (many gods). The comparisons between Gilgamesh and Genesis are strikingly similar as also are their contrasts.

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