For your Discussion Assignment, you will write about the piece of children’s literature you read. You will, describe what you thought of when you read it. You do not have to tell what the story is about, but only what images came to your mind while you read the story.
This week I have chosen to read Fairy Tales of The World name called Babylonian Creation Myth, Babylon was a city-state in what is now Iraq; its history goes back at least five thousand years ("Babylonian Creation Myth - Fairy Tales of the World", 2013).
While reading this story I directly related to the bible, because the dependence of at least part of the creation account fund in Genesis on a common ancient Near Eastern “creation by combat” myth are “not gains payable.
From some information, understanding world was a flat circular disc surrounded by a saltwater sea. The habitable earth was a single giant continent inside this sea, and floated on a second sea, the freshwater apsu, …show more content…
Thus the opening of Genesis 1 is traditionally rendered: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth..”, whereas the Hebrew makes it clear that Genesis 1:1-3 is describing the state of chaos immediately prior to God’s creation.
In the beginning of God’s creating the skies and the earth when the earth had been shapeless and formless, darkness was upon the face of the deep, and God’s spirit was hovering on the face of the water, God said. “Let there be light!’ so that in both Enuma Elish and Genesis, creation is an act of divine speech. The Enuma Elish describes pre-creation as a time “when above the heaven had not been named, and below the earth had not been called by name”, while in genesis each act of divine creation is introduced with the formula: “and God said, let there
This week I have chosen to read Fairy Tales of The World name called Babylonian Creation Myth, Babylon was a city-state in what is now Iraq; its history goes back at least five thousand years ("Babylonian Creation Myth - Fairy Tales of the World", 2013).
While reading this story I directly related to the bible, because the dependence of at least part of the creation account fund in Genesis on a common ancient Near Eastern “creation by combat” myth are “not gains payable.
From some information, understanding world was a flat circular disc surrounded by a saltwater sea. The habitable earth was a single giant continent inside this sea, and floated on a second sea, the freshwater apsu, …show more content…
Thus the opening of Genesis 1 is traditionally rendered: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth..”, whereas the Hebrew makes it clear that Genesis 1:1-3 is describing the state of chaos immediately prior to God’s creation.
In the beginning of God’s creating the skies and the earth when the earth had been shapeless and formless, darkness was upon the face of the deep, and God’s spirit was hovering on the face of the water, God said. “Let there be light!’ so that in both Enuma Elish and Genesis, creation is an act of divine speech. The Enuma Elish describes pre-creation as a time “when above the heaven had not been named, and below the earth had not been called by name”, while in genesis each act of divine creation is introduced with the formula: “and God said, let there