Enuma Elish Essay

However, there are similarities between Enuma Elish and Gen 1 in the help of the winds in creating life “marshalled four winds so that no part of her could escape” (Enuma Elish 251) versus in Gen 1 where “While a wind from God swept over the face of the water.”(Gen 1 4-5) This creation mirrors itself with the Enuma Elish Marduke creates the sky and stars similarly to how God created the sky except here he “and the large temple which he built its image was Esharra. It was a great shrine Esharra, which he had created as the sky.”(Enuma Elish 255) The Enuma Elish hold many similarities in the actual creation, but differs in the back story because humans were a byproduct of the story created from blood and not the center of the story like in Gen 1. Gen 2 differs greatly from Gen …show more content…
Gen 1 came from 1 tribe probably were redacted together, which led to two different creation narratives. As the Enuma Elish shares many parts with Gen 1, which means the Israelite took some their creation from stories they had heard before. Hauer and Young say “The Israelites used the combat creation theme as a poetic metaphor, but not in their creation narratives. Their creation account do, however share common motifs with their cultural matrix.”(Hauer and Young 55) Gen 1 drew from other creation narratives. Gen 2,3 was written with the purpose of creating a split between humans and God whereas Gen 1 is very optimistic story Professor Carol Meyers, “ points out that from the standpoint of the Torah, the Garden of Eden story is an arhcype. It shows people behaving rebellious towards God, a bad human trait turn up all to frequently”(Hauer and Young 56) This story was created to serve the purpose of showing the pitfalls of disobeying God and how it can lead to a downfall. Though all these stories are very different Enuma Elish and Gen 1 drew parts from each other and Gen 2-3 helps push a story narrative of not disobeying