The Old Testament :: Religion Influence Religious Bible Essays

The Old Testament The Old Testament is a compilation, and interchangeable every compilation it has a wide variety of contributors who, in turn, deport their individual influence upon the final work. It is no surprise, then, that there exist authentic parallels between the Enuma Elish, the cosmogony of the Babylonians, and the Book of contemporaries, the first part of the Pentateuch section of the playscript. In fact, arguments may be made that other Near Eastern texts, in particular Sumerian, have had their influences in Biblical texts. The extent of this borrowing, as it were, is not express to the Bible the Enuma Elish has its own roots in Sumerian romanceology, predating the Enuma Elish by about a thousand years. A superficial examination of this evidence would mistakenly lead one(a) to believe that the Bible is somewhat a assembly of older mythology re-written specifically for the Semites. In fact, what develops is that the writers have addressed each myth as a separat e issue, and what the writers say is that their God surpasses every other. for each one myth or text that has a counterpart in the Bible all serves to further an important desire among the Hebrews there is but one God, and He is omnipotent, omniscient, and other-worldly He is not of this world, but outside it, a authority from it. The idea of a monotheistic religion is first evinced in recorded storey with Judaism, and it is vital to see that instead of being an example of plagiarism, the Book of Genesis is a meticulously composed document that will set apart the Hebrew God from the others before, and after.To get a clear picture of the way the Book of Genesis may have been formed (because we can only guess with some degree of certainty), we must place in someplace in time, and then define the cultures in that time. The influences, possible and probable, must be illustrated, and then we may draw our conclusions.If we trace back to the first visual aspect of the Bible in writt en form, in its earliest translation, we arrive at 444 B.C.. Two texts, components of the Pentateuch referred to as J and E texts, can be traced to around 650 B.C. Note that J refers to Yahweh (YHVH) texts, characterized by the use of the word Yahweh or Lord in accounts E refers to Elohist texts, which use, naturally, Elohim in its references to God.1 But 650 B.